Challenges
Challenges
Reorganize one of these topic lists into a meaningful menu, by dividing items into groups, sequencing those, and rewriting items to articulate your new structure. Feel free to delete duplicates. You may need to create group names. Remember that similar items ought to have the same grammatical structure.
(a)
Choosing the Paper for Your Sales Brochure
Paper weight
Paper surface and texture
Slickness
Bendability, foldability
Color
Absorbability
Toughness in standing up to mail
Ability to print small type clearly
Resemblance to papers we have used before
Cost per 500 sheets
Ease of printing (how much gets damaged)
Other ways to make your menus meaningful:
6a. Think of a heading as an object you reuse many times.
6c. Offer multiple routes to the same information.
6d. Write and display several levels at once.
6e. When users arrive at the target, make it obvious.
6f. Confirm the location by showing its position in the hierarchy.
(b)
Arguments in Favor of Purchase
Recommending $100,000 purchase of equipment
The budget
The benefits
The possible disadvantages
How we will cope with any problems
How the machinery works
Where the machinery will go
Changes we need to make in wiring
Possible code violations and solutions
Air conditioning upgrades needed
Break-even date (when well start saving money)
Labor-saving aspects
Improved quality, thanks to this equipment
Improved competitive position
Unfamiliarity of equipment
Training needed to familiarize workers with gear
Replacement cycle
How to speed up replacements
Why the cycle is slow now
Vendor promises, on replacement cycle
Quality of this equipment
Mean time between failure for this equipment
Speed of this equipment
Maintainability of this equipment
Resources on menus
Heuristic Online Text (H. O. T.) Evaluation of Menus
(c)
Electronic Devices to Catch a Thief (list of topics)
Anti-theft devices
Equipment to catch a thief
Electronic guard dogs
Spotting a shadow
Locating metal
Sensing heat gradients
Noticing temporary duration brightness deltas
Picking up a break in the circuit
Detecting metal
Electronic gizmos to warn you if a robber has entered your business
Installing a fan to set up a background vibration
Breaking an ultraviolet beam to change current in a photoelectric cell
Detecting a change in light levels
Detecting a change in heat patterns
Picking up metal in a location that usually has no metal
Detecting a change in pressure
Detecting a change in capacitance
Detecting a change in vibration
Alerting the police over the phone lines
Autodialing the police
Sounding an alarm
Running a surveillance camera
(d)
Network Security
User rights
User privileges
User access options
What a user can do with a file or directory
The things a user can get ahold of in your computer
View, read, write privileges
Right to view a file
Right to read a file
Right to write to a directory
Right to overwrite a file
Right to view contents of a directory
Right to view and read, but not write to a directory
Privilege to look inside a directory
User ability to open a particular file
User ability to assign rights to a file
A user can set up privileges (or rights) for everyone, or a group, or just oneself
Setting security options on your own file
Setting security options on your own directory
Setting up a group account
Defining a groups privileges as read-only or view-only for the whole system, a directory, or a file
Defining a user as read-only or view-only for the whole system, a directory, or a file
Defining a users privileges for a particular file
Regulating an individual users access to a directory
Regulating a groups access to a directory
Defining user rights for a directory
Specifying what a user can do with a file
Help on the Distributed File System
Add a Dfs link
Add a Dfs root share
Add a Dfs shared folder
Check status of a Dfs shared folder
Conceptualizing a distributed file system
Create a Dfs root
Creating a distributed file system
Delete a Dfs root
Delete a Dfs root share
Display a Dfs root
Managing a distributed file system
Remove the display of a Dfs root
Set replication policy
Troubleshooting a distributed file system
Understanding a distributed file system
Using a distributed file system
