Chapter 7: Menu Selection, Form Fillin, and Dialog Boxes
7.5 Fast Movement Through Menus
Menus with typeahead
Important when
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Menus are familiar
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Response time/display rates are slow
BLT approach: single-letter menus with typeahead leads to concatenation
of menu selections into mnemonics.
Menu names or bookmarks for direct access
Simple naming scheme allows users to directly access pages.
Useful only if there is a small number of possible destinations that
each user needs to remember.
WWW browsers provide bookmarks for quick access to specific pages.
