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