Choose a web-based application in which menu selection and form fill-in are more

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Choose a web-based application in which menu selection and form fill-in are more appropriate than a direct-manipulation strategy. In your initial post, include the following:

A link to the site

A description of the intended audience

An explanation of why menu selection or form fill-in would be preferred over direct manipulation according to the Eight Golden Rules, described in Section 3.3.4 of Designing the User Interface

A brief analysis explaining whether or not a different type of menu selection or form fill-in is preferred and why

Explanation / Answer

a) Menu Selection is used in Web-based Online Banking Applications to do shopping,pay your bills etc.

b) Registration form is used to fill your details to apply for a job on a job portal which is a web application eg fill in your name,address,qualification,experience,salary etc.

c) To do online shopping on a shopping website using menus to choose the category and submenu to choose the products .

d) To order food online, you have to choose from food menu given in the web application eg snacks, soups,desserts or main course.

e) To do online ticket reservation for Airlines you need to fill the source and destination ,how much lugguge you are carrying, etc using forms

All these web applications cannot work with direct-manipulation strategy.

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