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Icons don’t work with on page search (e.g CTRL+F). And it’s hard to describe icons to someone else on the phone. I‘m not sure if Word is still the mess it used
by rmetzler 5y ago
Icons don’t work with on page search (e.g CTRL+F).
And it’s hard to describe icons to someone else on the phone. I‘m not sure if Word is still the mess it used to be, but this kind of interface design can be really hard to understand and learn. Currently for me this is Blender. The software is complex, the interface mirrors this, but if you’re new to it, this is really hard to learn.
- kaba0 5y agoI guess after a point it is simply inherent complexity. Like, I can’t even imagine a GUI that would make someone seeing it for the first time know some semi-advanced feature in Word. First of all, the whole problem domain has to be taught/discovered. And sure, people often learn by trial-and-error and it makes sense to try to maximalize this sort of discoverability in all software, but I would say that it doesn’t scale. Even with the “better” labeled menus, gimp is not intuitive to say the least. So perhaps the (often annoying) teach you by showing is the better direction? My gripe with it is that it is often applied for trivial mobile apps for things like “search by using the search bar”.. but I think an all-menu/all-action text-based search functionality would be a must as well.
- rmetzler 5y agoIn MacOS you can search the menu of GUI apps. This helps discovery so much.