>Hi all,
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> How do you think about the ideea to develop an application based just on buttons and no menus ? Can be those interfaces more understandable because of better visibility of all option toghether? Whitch could be the main reason for doing all things from menus ?

I've just done one without menus, but that's a very specific one (aren't they all?). It has only four buttons (on the sidebar, Outlook-like). It has only four main forms, heavily tabbed, and in this case the buttons-only approach made sense. And the buttons weren't exactly buttons, it was a combination of image+label, but that's mostly because of the resizing - the picture on a button doesn't resize, but picture-as-a-button does, plus giving it a raised border in OnMouseEnter and dropping it OnMouseLeave gives it a cool look.

The good thing about lack of menus is that the user doesn't have to learn the names of things. How many times have you been looking for someting in the Word's or Excel's menus (or help, for that matter) not knowing how exactly did they decide to call it?

I'm not really sure this approach can be used elsewhere. It's good for this one app.