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0 pointsMetaWhirledPeas1y ago0 comments

I just watched a few minutes of someone using it, and I have a few observations.

- Uniform menus everywhere

- Every menu has an ID visible in the corner. Imagine how easy troubleshooting would be if you could just say, I'm on menu 4388 and I'm not getting the result I expect.

- Every selection has a number. Presumably you can type this in rather than mouse over to it?

- Every page has keywords you can string together for instant searching

- No transition animations

This is nice to see: a tool for getting things done, not for nudging the user in a desired direction to satisfy marketing goals.

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myth20181y ago

My parents work for a company using an old system using numeric IDs for menus and screens. It's currently a web app, but it seems to share a good deal of code (and a great deal of philosophy) with the previous, older version, a TUI apparently built in Pascal.

I can confirm that those numeric IDs help A LOT in troubleshooting and documentation. And not only that: those IDs are frequently and naturally used by the users themselves when communicating between them. Needless to say, they also use the IDs to navigate the system, only touching the menus when they have to use some infrequent function.

I always mention this "case study" to UX folks who insist to dumb users down with childish interfaces.

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