On 27/02/2014 20:00, Burr Sutter wrote:
My quick feedback:
The first screen should be the Message textarea, where I can
immediately hit Send Message/Finish (in the wizard) and ignore the
remaining steps - this would send the message to everybody, across all
variants, for my app that was selected prior to seeing this screen.
At least, that is what the newbie needs - he only has 1 app, 1
variant, 1 installation/device token and he wishes to see if the
system works - if it fails, he reviews logs. :-)
Once the newbie has gotten his app created/debugged/tested, it needs
to roll-into production, where the average company is likely to have 5
apps, 2 variants each and hundreds/thousands of installations.
Where do you get these numbers from? That would be useful data to have. ;)
There will be another tier of users, who have dozens of apps, with
many variants, as they will likely use variants as "groups" like
"Executive - iOS", "Executive - Android", "Sales Manager -
iOS",
"Sales Manager - Android", "US Southeast Sales Team Member - iOS",
"US
Southeast Sales Team Member - Android".
Was this last scenario envisioned for the use of variants?
And yes, there will be users who are supporting tens of thousands of
apps and variants and millions of devices/installations - as they are
hosting UPS like a multi-tenant SaaS - but that is not exactly our
target audience in terms of UI design.
Yes, this is exactly why we have variants.
I don't know about these numbers though. Use cases with millions of
variants need a different design. Variants are mostly there for us for
administrators to group things in a sensible way, having millions of
these will render that tool useless and we would have to look for a
different solution.
Hylke