Re: [phpesp-dev] new phpESP GUI

[Kon A. <ang...@ip...>]

The feedback is much appreciated. Keep it comming.

whenever I design a GUI it must meet the following criteria:

1/ when viewed on an 800 x 600 screen resolution there should be no
horizontal scrolling (of course there are times when this can't be helped...).
When using a scroll, the idea is to place the least important info in the 
scroll area. Keeping this in mind which of the headings/links would you 
consider least important and therefore place in the scroll area?

Creating Section headings is always a difficult task. You try to avoid 3 
things:
	1/ clutter
	2/ headings that only contain 1 or two links because this tends to give the 
impression that this section is "underdeveloped".
	3/ headings that do not give a true reflection of its content.
	(assume that we implemented a Survey Deployment section header and placed 
"changing of status" and "change access to survey" links within this heading. 
we then proceed to analyse the functionality of the links.
are archiving, ending, editing considered survey deployments processes?
even testing cannot be truly considered a survey deployment process.


I hope this gives you an idea as to where I'm comming from and the complexity 
of GUI design.

Kon

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:19, Lou Spironello wrote:
> Cool.  Love those colours (Candian spelling!).
> I wondering if the menu items under the main headings
> will have the same colour pallete as the main heading?
>
> :-)
>
> I wish I had that sense of colour maching and design.  :-((
> I guess I'm in the same boat as James on this one.
>
> I don't know if your next mock-up will contain this,
> but I still think there should be a Survey Deployement
> section (i.e. which contains the Changing of status (or publishing the
> survey) and the Change of Access).
>
> I was also thinking that Survey Administration might
> be changed to Survey Creation so then we have
>
>     Survey Creation
>     Survey Deployment
>     Survey Results
>
>     and then the
>
>     Admin
>     Utilites
>     Help
>
> That would balance the display with  3 x 3 with one at the bottom(i.e
> the contact stuff).
>
> I was just wondering about the order of the menu items in the Account
> Admin
> section.  That is, I was thinking that they should be in order of usage
> and I
> don't know what the order should be.  Any ideas?
>
> I noticed the version number!  :-))
> (I guess the reason I'm kinda sensitve about that one is that if users
> are having difficulty
> they can quickly find the version number of the package.  Moreover, it
> also saves
> time for developers when trying to track down bugs).
>
> Regarding the version number, I also think that the version should be
> placed somewhere at the bottom
> of each survey generated (in small font of course)
>
> Thank you.
> Lou.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kon Angelopoulos" <ang...@ip...>
> To: "James E. Flemer" <jf...@ac...>; "Lou Spironello"
> <lr...@at...>
> Cc: <php...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [phpesp-dev] new phpESP GUI
>
> > Thanks for the suggestions Lou, I'll keep them in mind for the final
>
> design.
>
> > In the mean time I've implemented some of your suggestions to the GUI
>
> I posted
>
> > yesterday and have attached a revised version.
> >
> > Do they suite ?
> >
> > Kon
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 02:45, James E. Flemer wrote:
> > > Looks cool. I can't wait to see the rest.
> > > -James
> > >
> > >
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