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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the as-easy-as-3.14159... dept.

Over at Medium which is like having a blog but with an involuntary paywall, Don Hopkins takes on the topic of a 30-year retrospective of pie menus[*]. He discusses the history of what's happened with pie menus over the last 30 plus years and presents both good and bad examples, including ideas half baked, experiments, problems discovered, solutions attempted, alternatives explored, progress made, software freed, products shipped, as well as setbacks and impediments to their widespread adoption.

[*] Succinctly explained at Wikipedia:

In computer interface design, a pie menu (also known as a radial menu) is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction. It is a graphical control element. A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse. Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an easy way to exit the menu.


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:20PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:20PM (#686458)

    Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an easy way to exit the menu.

    For one thing, in radial menu, pie hole shuts you.

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