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One of the best things I've ever used in a program is Autodesk Maya's Hotbox. I even went so far as designing a Flash website where the user interface was a riff on that. I'm going to have to check this out.

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Fusion 360 also features pie menus for certain functions. quite handy and I wish more places used them. especially the homescreen on my phone - just go home then put a finger down then go up then right to open whatever preconfigured app is there.

That looks more usable than pie menus to me.

Somehow I‘m an orthogonal-grid person and perceive radial movements as too finicky to perform accurately.

this approach is definitely more usable. radial menus only make ergonomic sense on ie game controllers. with a mouse it becomes a high precision action to use, plus poor accessibility because it doesnt conform to the standard box model.

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