Menu: when to use (1)
- Self-explanatory
- reduces need for manuals
- requires little or no training
- makes both semantics and syntax explicit
- requires little memory recognition versus recall
- few keystrokes less opportunity for user input error
- easy error handling only limited valid inputs at any point
- Inefficient for experts and high frequency users
- inflexible system-controlled forced-choice
- impractical for numerous choices
- take up screen ‘real estate’