Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback. I will probably make use of most of what was suggested.
Bryan can you send a link to an example of a "page-level "jump to" box" such as you described? I'm not able to picture the behavior well from text discussion. To respond to a few of the points: - I agree that this isn't really a categorization problem. The introduction of categories of this sort will be a new feature with this release. The old groupings were developer-driven; I've replaced those with categories/subcategories that came from a combination of user feedback and subject-matter expertise. One of my first goals will be to test whether this was an improvement, but to do that I have to have a display technology that doesn't confound things. Frankly, if the tech makes finding what you want too hard it doesn't matter how good your categories are. Since the present implementation (cascading menus) doesn't permit any form of search/find I have no data on how frequently people will use that mode versus scanning. - we do have far fewer than 800 items at the leaf node level; it's more like 200. In the previous version the number went from 50 to that near-200 level and there was significant complaint from experienced users that they could no longer find the items they wanted because of the proliferation of new things. Even though this group is probably only about 20-30% of our users I still want to support them in finding the few familiar items quickly. (My proposal to let people customize their lists to just the 10 or so they frequently use was not implemented in the current release.) Thanks again - I really appreciate the feedback. -- --Alan Wexelblat ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
