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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:38PM (1 child)
Interesting that that one helpful feature would be entirely wrong on a touchscreen. You just moved the menu entries I use the most right under my giant hand...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:11PM
Um, no. The Newton used a stylus. "Tapping" to display the menu displayed it clearly due to the distance between the hand and the screeen. We found right-handed people move their hand to the right more easily (it's their natural direction for writing). Left handed people move their hand more easily to the left (writing left-to-right is "pushing" for left handed people and is not a natural movement).