Re: [Usability] triple mouse click behavior

[Nadyne Mielke <nmielke acm org>]

On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 03:48 PM, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> Funny how you assume the toolbar should contain the most used commands.
> Essentially you are assuming that sorting funcionality by frequency of 
> access
> is a good thing. But it isn't always. Sorting by frequency is good 
> when you
> are an expert and you are concerned about speed. It is bad when you are
> learning. Who is learning wants a layout as clean and uniform as 
> possible. Or,
> alternatively, a layout which is structured by semantics, not by 
> frequency.
> He is not concerned about speed/number-of-clicks at all.

So you're saying that having oodles of icons on the toolbars, so that 
the layout is structured by [your idea of] semantics, is going to make 
life easier for a new user?

In general, new users prefer layouts with the most basic and 
frequently-accessed items on the toolbars.  It's the more advanced user 
who wants something so esoteric as 'select one sentence' on the toolbar.

/nm