Comments on: A New Test Pilot Study: How do we use menu items?

By: Octavian

Octavian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:21:31 +0000

Well that's a great idea, but it would be even greater if than orange button will slide up when is not used, and slide down when you get the mouse over it! This can be improved afcourse! OH…and an update button will be perfect too!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:12:26 +0000

The “application button” seems a lot like the extremely popular Personal Menu extension. Not that this is a bad thing, I’ve felt its functionality should be built into every browser for years.

I would love for the application button to retain personal menu’s customizability.

By: Nawfel

Nawfel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:43:31 +0000

a suggestion :
Page > save ; print ; print previous ;Print setup ; view sourse ; find
Tools > ….

By: Kata

Kata — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:51:13 +0000

Please just don’t draw premature conclusions from the results. For example, I almost never use the Character Encoding menu item, and I will not mind if it gets one level deeper into the menu hierarchy as a result of collapsing the menu into one application button. But if it were removed, that would be a severe blow, and would force me to use other browsers to view certain pages.

rarely used != not essential

By: BWRic

BWRic — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:29:33 +0000

I agree, this is a good idea and it’s great that you’re doing this kind of testing. It really embraces the ideas of the open web.

By: Jeff Walden

Jeff Walden — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:51:40 +0000

It might be worthwhile examining *how* the menu is accessed, in some way. Observation time might be negligible when accessing Preferences because the user has grown accustomed to typin Alt+E,N very quickly, for example. Distinguishing types of access might yield further insights into the actual meaning of observation time with keyboard versus mouse.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:39:59 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what does this mean for Mac Firefox, where the menu bar itself is more of an OS-integrated paradigm? I’m thinking of ways it could be reorganized, or that just the first “Firefox” menu could be used. Or is it to become divergent in that area from the “modern Windows” versions?

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:53:46 +0000

A very good idea for a Test Pilot study!

By: Pino

Pino — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:12:26 +0000

I just hope you won’t add frequently used menu items like “copy” or “refresh” to an app button. Turning the “tools” menu (used in other browsers and posted in some mockups) into an app button does make sense to me. A “page” menu could then be part of the location bar or something.
Please don’t place everything in one spot, just because it uses little space then. I think most pc users have enough horizontal space to accodomate something on the navigation toolbar.