Hi, this is not current thinking. The literature is full of studies which show that the various features you mention decrease user satisfaction and decrease productivity - ie the ability to get the required task done.
--- Bob Sunday, November 24, 2002, 7:03:58 PM, you wrote: > On the contrary, current thinking in UI design is to offer people > multiple ways to do the same thing. Redundancy is good because people > do the same thing in different ways. Think of the menus in a graphical > user interface. You can use the mouse to pull down a menu and select an > item in the menu. Or you can use the keyboard shortcut to do the same > thing. Or in certain operating systems, I can double-click on an icon > to launch an application, or type in the command line equivalent to > fire it up.
