Re: [Usability] Re: Menu order.

[Juha Siltala <juha k siltala helsinki fi>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:01, Patrick Costello wrote:

> - Alphabetical ordering is standard UI design practise. Users worldwide are 
> accustomed to this approach.

As a GNOME user, and a computer user, I must disagree. I want things in
my GUI to not be alphabetical, but where I expect them to be. Two things
command my expectations: familiarity and intuition. Familiarity tells me
to find things where they have always been, and intuition tells me that
clever designers of interfaces must have put things where they should
be, them designers being as smart as they are.

I would argue that an interface that is intuitive(1) will be more useful
than something you learned from bad, historical examples of user
interfaces. At least the Youth will have some hope! :)

(1) Yes I know the nipple story, thank you.

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Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/