PPT Slide
Menu selection, guidelines
- Use task semantics to organize menus (single, linear sequence, tree structure, a-cyclic and cyclic networks)
- Prefer broad/shallow trees
- Show position by graphics, numbers or titles
- Items become titles for trees - i.e. for underlying items, sub-menus
- Meaningful groupings of items
- Brief items, begin with keyword
- Consistent grammar, layout, terminology
- Type-ahead, jump-ahead, or other short-cuts
- Jumps to previous and main menu
- Consider: on-line help, novel selection mechanism, response time, display rate, screen size