Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
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Having the right tools available in any given situation makes all the difference, especially when it comes to correctly and efficiently getting things done. Without the relevant tools, we waste time and are left feeling frustrated, lost, and confused. Just as bad: when there are too many tools around, we waste time looking for the right one or end up satisficing with a suboptimal tool, instead.
The digital space is no different; in any given application, there’s an abundance of tools to use, tasks to complete, menu options to explore, and commands to execute. As such, an important user-interface element that narrows the set of available commands and associates them...
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Slider Design: Rules of Thumb
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The User Experience of Customer-Service Chat: 20 Guidelines
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CRM and GDPR Compliance in 2019 for Startups
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