Definition: dynamic user menu

A menu that automatically places the most-selected menu items at the top of the list, personalizing the menu for each user. Right clicking an object on screen can display a lot of options, when all people may want is a few (see below).

Alan Freedman, author of this encyclopedia, invented the DUM menu and made it open source in the 2010s. As of 2025, there is little evidence of a DUM menu in use, but there are tons of "dumb" menus everywhere.

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Every menu, no matter what its purpose, could be DUMified. People make the same choices over and over, sometimes hundreds of times every week. See first-time user menu.

The DUM Menu

Instead of 25 items (top), a DUM menu could reduce the list to six based on user history or manual selection. MORE lets users add options.