Mattias,
I'm all for breaking conventions to introduce better solutions. I
don't believe, however, that contextual menus are always the best
answer. Given all of your suggestions, you are going to end up with
one overloaded menu. It would become difficult to find the particular
tool/option/function you are looking for. A well designed UI groups
and presents different types of functionality in different ways,
making it relatively easy for a user to remember or find any
particular piece of functionality. If you throw everything into a
contextual menu, you lose that mental mapping.
On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Mattias Konradsson wrote:
You could show "tool-mode" either by changing the cursor, or if in
your case you really want a cross-hair a symbol could however in the
vicinity of the cursor.
No, an icon hovering near the cursor would still be covering up nearby
pixels.
But what's the scenario? If you need to scroll with the mousewheel
to the end of the document it might be inefficient but you could
combine it with a "goto page" context-menu
But how do I pick "go to the area about two thirds of the way down
against the right edge" from a menu? A map view is even better than
scrollbars for this, of course, but that's more "chrome".
Best,
Jack
Jack L. Moffett
Interaction Designer
inmedius
412.459.0310 x219
http://www.inmedius.com
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