> You can try to make a button for everything, but no one is going to try all the buttons, much less remember what they mean. That's where old-fashioned hierar

> You can try to make a button for everything, but no one is going to try all the buttons, much less remember what they mean. That's where old-fashioned hierarchial menus are good. They're categorized lists of actions, where most of the actions are hidden most of the time, but can be read (and ideally have descriptive names). Typically there are also toolbars with buttons for the most commonly used actions. These days it's become popular to hide all the menus behind a "hamburger" icon, which does satisfy the design types without harming usability all that much. The other option is to have a gigantic button for everything, with tabs of buttons, and call it a "ribbon". The more cryptic the icons the better, you've made the decision to go to a ribbon so you wouldn't want to make things easy.