A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts¶
Tognazzini, B. (1999). A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts. AskTog.
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Domain-specific¶
- Fitts's Law
- This is why the macOS global menu bar sits flush against the top edge of the screen (you can fling the cursor upward without overshooting), and why screen corners — infinitely wide in two directions at once — are prime real estate for high-value controls such as the macOS hot corners
This sourceThe standard practitioner statement of the edge-and-corner corollary: a menu bar on a screen edge has effectively infinite height, so users 'can just throw their mice toward the top of the screen', and the screen corners, whose target size is 'infinite in two dimensions', are the fastest targets available.
- This is why the macOS global menu bar sits flush against the top edge of the screen (you can fling the cursor upward without overshooting), and why screen corners — infinitely wide in two directions at once — are prime real estate for high-value controls such as the macOS hot corners
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