Menus and Branching

The question came up, which is my “favorite menu”?  A few jumped to mind, Editor’s Toolbox and The Quest of MedQuistadora, but in the end, two projects won out for two entirely different reasons. 

The Expense Report menu is an intriguing graphic menu.  It has three main “clickable” areas, one of which is not on the image itself.  One stipulation for the project was to give the user the ability to skip ahead to any section that they had a question about, so for this we used the Outline Tab on the left.  Otherwise, the user can explore by clicking on the other two options.

In Installing the Virtual Desktop the menus are simple and text-driven.  Green navigation buttons are used throughout, and guide the user though a number of self-checks and installation instructions.  The project branches many directions, but as far as the user knows, it’s all just few clicks to completion.