Introducing Homerun

[Alex Fiestas]

On Tuesday 13 November 2012 15:49:22 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 15:29:37 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 November 2012 14:41:24 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > > > http://wstaw.org/m/2012/11/13/plasma-desktopb11622.png
> > > 
> > > well, the first thing that comes to my mind looking at that is... where
> > > is
> > > waldo? :p
> > 
> > Exactly the same feeling with kickoff or tree based menus, the difference
> > is that by having everything into the same place you don't have to make
> > "attempts" on knowing in which page waldo is xD
> 
> serious question:
> 
> 	is it our goal to re-create the entire body of knowledge around human
> 	behaviour, psychology and machine usage?
> 
> i ask because these discussions have all been had by people smarter than us
> (in these areas, at least :) long ago.
> 
> in this case, there's a reason why google's simple search page killed all
> the hierarchical organizations (like Yahoo) -> hierarchy fails beyond a
> certain level; lists are difficult for people; 2D grids even harder. this
> is not disputed. this is well confirmed scientific knowledge.
So a 2level tree with the amount of branches and leaves per branches we have 
in kickoff is scientifically proved to be better than a grid with the same 
amount of leaves?