On 01/31/2013 06:55 PM, Heiko Tietze wrote:
Jay Lozier wrote
My thought is that users who heavily use software may prefer
menus over ribbons while those who do not use the software
much prefer ribbons.
That argumentation is too simple.
Means of self rated expertise from 1=beginner, 2=average user, to 3=expert
(no one wants to be a beginner, but when do you become an expert?) grouped
by ribbon vs. toolbar (semantic differential; first value agree totally with
ribbons last with toolbar, all other between):
2.739712
2.800813
2.780000
2.757752
2.736434
2.738717
Based on these numbers most people are rating themselves as expert
users. One problem could be they are comparing themselves to true
beginners and not to real experts.
Of course there are some indicators that support your idea, like power user
of writer (toolbars are preferred) vs. user of impress (ribbons have
attraction).
Interesting. The useful of ribbons and toolbars varies from application
to application. This implies the analysis is not simply one is all the
other is all good but for certain applications one is better. The
indicates there is underlying reason based on the nature of the
application and how it is typically used. This suggests that the best UI
to the user depends heavily on which modules they primarily use.
IMHO this suggests that UI the combines both somehow may be the best.
The question then is what elements from each UI should be included.
I primarily use Writer and Calc so my natural bias would be towards
toolbars.
Breakdown Table of Descriptive Statistics (libreoffice) N=4275
Writer Calc Impress
3.926230 3.031762 2.421107
3.883627 3.140731 2.456022
3.842942 3.129225 2.397614
3.885880 3.290135 2.214700
3.888545 3.258514 2.221362
4.075919 3.379597 2.291815
Sorry for simple analysis and sloppy output. But calculation and better
presentation needs some time. And it's late now ;-).
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