I expect the users who were tested were not that familiar with the keyboard
shortcuts.
It's obviously faster to make a few keystrokes that navigating a set of
menus with a mouse.
At 6/26/2009 09:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>On 27 Jun 2009 at 2:20, Owain Sutton wrote:
>
>> David W. Fenton wrote:
>> > On 26 Jun 2009 at 21:00, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have several friends that are graphic designers, and I'm in awe of
>> >> watching them work in Photoshop or Illustrator without having to use the
>> >> mouse at all. When I asked about it, they told me their productivity
would
>> >> shrink by 3/4 if they didn't have the keyboard shortcuts.
>> >
>> > And yet, the actual research on this subject completely contradicts
>> > that user perception. That is, Apple and Microsoft's usability labs
>> > have run the tests many times and mousing is faster than keyboarding.
>> >
>> > It's counterintuitive to me, but them's the facts.
>>
>> And the tests run by third parties?
>
>I don't know. While one could say that Apple had an agenda, MS came
>late to that ballgame.
>
>Why would Apple and Microsoft have an incentive to misrepresent the
>research? What good would it do them to design their products to be
>less useful than they could be?
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