Great User Interface: Read Users’ Mind

Ever looking up a word online and having to look up another word in the original word’s definition? Here are the steps to do it if you look up the word online.

  1. Go to dictionary.com
  2. Enter the word to look up
  3. Read the definition
  4. (Upon finding another new word) Copy the new word and paste it to the search box

Step 4 may not be much, or it may be (a sequence of a double mouse click, CTRL+C, move mouse cursor to the search box, CTRL+V, and ENTER), but dictionary.com has managed to simplify that step 4 into the following sequence of steps: click the new word, click the tooltip immediately above the new word. That’s it–two clicks and barely a muscle to move the mouse.