{"id":1746,"date":"2008-07-01T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2008-07-01T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:16:19","slug":"disabled-menus-are-usable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/disabled-menus-are-usable\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Menus Are Usable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/515\/disabled-menus-are-usable\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/515\/disabled-menus-are-usable\">\n<p>Sure, it&rsquo;s frustrating when you can&rsquo;t figure out why a menu item is disabled. But what would be unbelievably frustrating is drowning in a sea of enabled menu items, for which the application offers no immediate usability guidance. Instead of skimming past disabled items, a user could be forced to select several, each time receiving a valuable instruction (punishment) as to why it was a worthless move.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: Sure, it&rsquo;s frustrating when you can&rsquo;t figure out why a menu item is disabled. But what would be unbelievably frustrating is drowning in a sea of enabled menu items, for which the application offers no immediate usability guidance. Instead of skimming past disabled items, a user could be forced to select several, each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}