UI Games
Dvorak is entirely correct. In demanding that common users have memories, capabilities, and proficiencies unseen in even IT professionals, UI designers are making systems that are less useful and too complex.
Microsoft really should reconsider its horrid "drill-down" concept. This is the process whereby you click through a series of screens to a point where you can fix a problem or change a simple setting. The company seems enamored of tabbed dialog boxes as well as the Advanced Settings button, which hardly ever reveals anything truly advanced. This is nothing more than playing hide-and-seek with users. And worse, because of the series of drill-down clicks needed to make a simple change, users often can't recall the exact sequence and must click over and over, hoping to find something recognizable.
Putting the entire menu on one page, especially when combined with use of the scroll and find functions, make a superior interface to today's search- and dialog-box-driven methodologies.
