[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: First pass UI improvements

[cdelashmutt]

Am I an authority in usability?  By no means.  Can I quote leading usability experts as to the validity of my suggestions?  Nope.

I'm simply approaching this from the perspective of a user trying to understand and use the portal, which is all that I really can do.  ;)

In reference to the icons suggestion, I have a couple of reasons for suggesting them.  First off, the text links seem to run together even with the pipe separators.  One has to stop/think/interpret the text to understand which action they may want to take.  People respond better to icons, or even text that looks more like an icon (buttons with adequate padding, etc).  We could consider having icons with text next to them, similar to toolbar buttons, or for consistency's sake we could use a dropdown list and a "Go" button similar to the way CMS does it's functions if no one likes the icon idea.



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