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The following design proposal is part of the collection of design proposals for “Accessing Functionality”, which is part of Project Renaissance.
Summary and Status
This slides contain general considerations of how to solve the navigation problem regarding global, local and contextual navigation. Two basic approaches are considered. Tabbed-navigation and a menu-based approach with contextual navigation. The main problem we are currently faced with is the organization of functionality. Menu and toolbars still have their strength. Menus, for instance, are still a pretty efficient way of presenting all available functionality to a user. However, this requires a proper organization of the menus and menus are per se not efficient for frequent usage. Toolbars were designed to offer access to 20% of the most important functionality (80/20 rule). This requires focus and knowledge of the 20%. Overall, the are always trade-offs. Tabbed-navigation seems to offer a more promising solution. Let's see how far we can push the concepts.
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Author or Team Working on This Proposal
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| Andreas Bartel | Andba |
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I like the idea to move away from the standard "File - Edit - Format - ..." menu list. My understanding is, that you want to substitute this with the list of "Entry x"? Is it a series like "Slideshow" - "Slide" - "Object" etc? Please elaborate further. --Hillerd 19:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Your space :-)
