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Your experience with learning keyboard shortcuts

Mar 14, 2011 6:30PM PDT

Hello,
I am researching an easier way for users to learn keyboard shortcuts.

For that I am looking for people willing to share their experiences around keyboard shortcut learning.
I'd love to hear:

1. What you like and dislike about the current system of looking something up and memorizing it.
2. Your stories around shortcuts in general.
3. What do you love and hate about shortcuts?
4. Any links or articles around innovation/problems/success with shortcuts.

Please take the time for a short interview, so I can learn as much as I can about the current problems.

If you are ever looking for a particular shortcut and don't want to search, just ask me and I dig it for out for you!

Thanks,

Jan

Note: This post was edited by forum moderator to remove the survey link on 03/15/2011 on 5:54 AM PT

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Surveys/polls
Mar 14, 2011 10:57PM PDT

Sorry but for various reasons we do not allow posts that link to surveys/polls, so I have asked for the forum Admin to remove your link.

Also, for privacy reasons, we do not recommend anyone contacting you for an interview.

As to your questions;

1] What current system? I use keyboard shortcuts or don't use them, as I feel at the time.
2] My stories about shortcuts in general? Very useful.
3] I neither love nor hate shortcuts. I use them when needed.
4] None.

Mark

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Answers
Mar 25, 2011 2:48AM PDT

1) Not really a system. If I know a shortcut I use it when its convenient.
2) I don't really have stories, I mean, I like copy/paste and save with ctrl +c,v,s, so I use them.
3) Those are really strong emotions to be assigning to keyboard shortcuts.
4) Innovations? What's to innovate. You can assign actions to keystrokes. The system has kind of been figured out.