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Performance
10.4.1.6 Make the GUI Simple to Use
Any GUI that is simple and streamlined to use appears to be faster than GUI that is more
complex to operate (perceived performance).* The longer a user has to search for func-
tionality in a multitude of complex menu items or gure panels, the longer that operation
would take from end-to-end. Even if the actual time spent in operating the GUI is not
large, a complex GUI would appear slower than a streamlined GUI.
It does not matter if a computational processing task is superfast if users take ages to
activate it. In such a case, we could even argue that the perceived perform ...