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