Xref: utzoo sci.psychology:2042 comp.cog-eng:1161 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Newsgroups: sci.psychology,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: navigating through menus with colour Keywords: colour, menus Message-ID: <3059@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 5 Jun 89 09:46:38 GMT References: <572@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 17 In article <572@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk> davet@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (David Travis) writes: >One problem with menu-driven interfaces is that they encourage users to >be lazy: if you ask them to recall the options on a pull-down menu, >performance is very poor. Why is this a problem? Look at Mayes et al's HCI88 paper where the poor memorisation was true of expert users for MacWrite. If users can be expert, without remembering, how can this be a problem? The aim of HCI is to let people work, not to make them work. Not having to remember is a feature of a good user interface. -- Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs !ukc!glasgow!gilbert