apology

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday October 19, 2002 05:53, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Saturday October 19, 2002 03:47, Sebastian Faubel wrote:
> > > 2. We moved to a single menu, so that the user doesn't have to
> > > search toom uch to find links, and so that even on small screens
> > > there is room for the main text to be shown.
> >
> > depends. i don't think that you have to search for the links longer in
> > the two panel version than the other...as you don't have to scroll
> > down five times your monitor to find them.
>
> It's easier to scroll down, than to play hide-and-seek.  When you have
> to look on the left column, on the right column, and on the upper right
> row, that takes more mental effort and time to search than one
> hierarchy.

Argh!  I forgot to add one important bit of support for this claim!

You weren't on the list when I first pointed this out, Sebastian, that the 
two-list approach runs afoul of a classic usability error.  Programmer all 
too often will organize a UI in a way that reflects the internal 
implementation, rather than the user model and perception.  What's the 
implementation of the KDE collection of sites:  Many servers, many 
authors, many independent areas.  But if we go with one consistent design, 
the user won't see that at all, so he won't even think of that!  So to the 
user, the two sets of links will be arbitrarily divided.

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin
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