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Hidden is an interesting way to descibe menus. The UX people at the time called that making all options visible since you could click on the menus and look at a
by greggman2 7y ago
Hidden is an interesting way to descibe menus. The UX people at the time called that making all options visible since you could click on the menus and look at all the options. They also recommended the menus not remove options but just gray them out if they weren't available.
This was in contrast to lots of software at the time which was all hot-key based such that the only way to know what options there were was to look in a paper manual.
- projektfu 7y agoOne of the motivations for toolbars (and the ribbon) is that there is a large group of users who never look inside any menu. Many users do not know about Undo. Many word processing users are unaware of things like tab stops, automatic indentation, line spacing, and styles. I have known an otherwise intelligent user who did not know that the shift key could be held down to get a capital letter - they used the caps lock key to get a capital and turned it back off after typing it. It's pretty amazing what is not obvious.