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2010 menus unnecessarily complicated

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It looks to me as if someone has tried to make the 2010 menus look pretty without a thought as to how one might logically work through them.

Why are there multiple menus ?  Why not have a simple set of menus drilling down.

There are so many options it is not easy to know whether it is something different or the same thing in a different place.

I thought v8 was unnecessarily complicated - this is much worse.

Why not just sit down with people who do not know the product at all and see how they get on.  Find out how the menus really should be structured and what information just causes confusion, when it is not even necessary to put on view.

The idea is to "Keep it simple", not "keep it as confusing as possible"

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ATI for at least the last handful of versions has resisted using a straightforward menu with drill down. When ATI was a very simple program, this wasn't really an issue; as Acronis adds more features (for better or worse) this becomes more problematic. It's as if the menus are designed by programmers instead of users.

Scott Hieber wrote:
It's as if the menus are designed by programmers instead of users.

Well logically of course they are! Sorry I know that isn't what you meant, but my humour kicked in this morning.

Snot wrote:
... sit down with people who do not know the product at all and see how they get on...

That is exactly how it should be done - you can't have people who know anything about the program checking the interface for inexperienced users.

Seekforever wrote:
That is exactly how it should be done - you can't have people who know anything about the program checking the interface for inexperienced users.

I know that suggestions have been made at the beta testing stage concerning layout etc, but I think the 'team' that looks after that side of things tends to place comments in their intray and then can't quite remember where they left it.

Oh you kid.

But it's one thing to have programmers programming according to a specified design (created by folks that understand what users will prefer) and another to have them doing the designing. The ability to program and the ability to design the user interface are two very diff talents, not quite often enough found in the very same
people.

bodgy wrote:
Well logically of course they are! Sorry I know that isn't what you meant, but my humour kicked in this morning.