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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can we all please completely not consider this odd idea that there is muscle
memory for something like mousing around your desktop? Any mouse or track
pad has limited area, and any normal user has plenty of muscle memory
training them to be accurate using it in any minor or major way. Muscle
memory should not, at all, be considered when it comes to UI design meant
for the mouse. It is not muscle memory we should be concerned with, it's
recognizability and ease of recognition.

 If I open the sound menu and it's totally random, this is bad, but not
because I don't have the muscle memory; it's becuase it's hard to recognize
the things I want

Tyler

On May 3, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Nicholas Ipsen(Sephiroth_VII) <
sephiroth7vii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think it'd be better to keep the ordering static and alphabetical, in
> order to make it easier for users to establish muscle memory of how to use
> the menu.
>
>
I don't agree. What if I have 10 applications that support sound settings?
Will they all always appear in the list? That would be horrible user
experience.

Will only *running* applications be there? Then no muscle memory can be
developed, as the list will be populated and re-sorted when new application
runs; this will cause some applications change their location in the list.

Alex.

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