Not long ago, Rich Shepard proclaimed...
> I've wrestled with this question for years and haven't yet come up with a
> satisfactory answer. Perhaps folks here can give me some insight.
>
> When designing the main menu for an application, for example an accounting
> application, should the main menu headings be nouns or verbs? I've seen both
> on applications and I don't know if it makes any difference. Here's what I
> mean:
>
> Noun-oriented menus have catagories such as Clients, Projects, Employees,
> Vendors. Verb-oriented menus have categories such as Add, Modify, Delete.
> Perhaps I'm hung up over nothing, but I always have difficulty designing the
> organization of a new database. I want it to be very easy to use, and
> organized in the most useful way.
The professor I took Database Systems from in my Computer Science studies
emphasized that normal users do not think in terms of Add, Modify, Delete.
They think in terms of information. By that rational, it would probably be
more intuitive to the normal user to have menu items labelled
"Clients", "Projects", "Vendors", etc.
-=Fozz
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