Pie Menus

Timeline of pie menu development by Don Hopkins. ** 1968–12–09: The Mother of All Demos PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE AT HANDLING COMPLEX PROBLEMS--AT THEIR DAILY STRUGGLE WITH COMPLEX AND URGENT ISSUES. THE SURVIVAL OF MAN SEEMS DEPENDENT UPON IT. ANY REASONABLE POSSIBILITY SEEN BY SOCIETY FOR INCREASING THAT EFFECTIVENESS SHOULD WARRANT SERIOUS INVESTIGATION — Doug Engelbart (1968) The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Techniques for the Design of Circular Menus By Don Hopkins, October, 1987. Abstract Pie menus are used for making selections from items displayed on the computer screen, by pointing and clicking at the desired one with a mouse. …

Date: April 10, 1988 To: Members of the Technical Writing Class From: Don Hopkins Subject: Proposal to investigate interaction techniques and display styles appropriate for the application of pie menus to window management. Pie menus are a fast, accurate way of selecting commands from a list of options shown on the…

Resume for Don Hopkins, Senior Software Developer. — Mission Create fun and expressive live programming, debugging, content creation and world building user interfaces and tools for web, server, client, desktop, mobile, virtual, and augmented reality platforms. Employment Ground Up Software: Groundskeeper (2017-present) Open source UnityJS extension for scripting and debugging Unity3D in JavaScript across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. …

MediaGraph Music Navigation with Pie Menus. A prototype developed for Will Wright’s Stupid Fun Club. — This is a demo of a user interface research prototype that I developed for Will Wright at the Stupid Fun Club. It includes pie menus, an editable map of music interconnected with roads, and cellular automata. It uses one kind of nested hierarchical pie menu to build and edit another…

I am writing this letter to enthusiastically recommend that you consider Krystian Samp’s thesis, “The Design and Evaluation of Graphical Radial Menus”, for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. — Don Hopkins, October 31, 2012 Dear Sir or Madam: I am writing this letter to enthusiastically recommend that you consider Krystian Samp’s thesis, “The Design and Evaluation of Graphical Radial Menus”, for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

By John D’Ignazio — [BayCHI is our sister SIGCHI local chapter in the San Francisco Bay area. BayCHI meeting reports are extracted with permission from the BayCHI news- letter, and are copyright by BayCHI.] The October 11 BayCHI meeting occurred in two parts. The first featured Don Hopkins, who gave a talk entitled “Natural…

By Don Hopkins, Ground Up Software, May 15, 2018. — Take a Look and Feel Free! Today (May 15, 2018) is the 30 year anniversary of CHI’88 (May 15–19, 1988), where Jack Callahan, Ben Shneiderman, Mark Weiser and I (Don Hopkins) presented our paper “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”. …

They’re Fast, Easy, and Self-Revealing. — Originally published in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Dec. 1991. Introduction Although the computer screen is two-dimensional, today most users of windowing environments control their systems with a one-dimensional list of choices — the standard pull-down or drop-down menus such as those found on Microsoft Windows, Presentation Manager, or the Macintosh. This article…