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Re:Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs by Tichy on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @05:45AM (#399388)
I don't know, isn't that confusing sometimes? I know that I hate those menus with greyed out items and no explanation why a certain option is not available at the moment. Not even seeing the option at all might be even more confusing, because then I might start looking everywhere for the option to show up.
Re:Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs by Hexstream on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @02:14PM (#399866)
I don't know why we still don't have interfaces where you can always access a precise, clear, context-sensitive explanation for why a control is grayed out and when it's enabled. The benefits to usability would be huge!