Why HUD? I am scratching my head. What is gained by typing isn't necessarily an 'advantage' over using a pointing device. The depiction shows a user typing in a letter and HUD displaying the application's corresponding Menu Item.
So, hide the menus, make the user remember the menu tree accelerator keys so they can type them in a search window and 'magically' have the search algorithm find what it thinks the users is looking for! The menu item maybe? Yes! Errmm, maybe not if the user doesn't know the deeply nested menu structure. In fact, an added 'intelligent' feature of the search algorithm is that it recalls a possibly long list of anything you may have typed with that letter! Incredible! I want that!? No thank you.
You see, with the traditional 'Menu', I can use my eyes and 'see' or even infer what I can do next. I follow my mouse pointer and position it on the Menu item and 'click'. No typing, no guessing about anything. Amazingly simple, but, in the name of progress, elitist minds have determined I don't need this and that -DUH- HUD is best. I must accept what they say is best for me, I know.
What we have here is total experimentation to forsake a perfectly good Mouse-driven interface. Why? No good reason I can think of.
Is this progress? Not really. I say it is a symptom of an elitist who wishes in the worst way to differentiate his product to the world, done at Users' expense.
Yet another regression.
No usability advantage to HUD really, but, hey, some say it's progress. What do I know? DUH :/
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