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

[cdelashmutt]

anonymous wrote : I am not trying to belittle your work. This is much appreciated in particular with respect to finding out all the different inconsistencies in the GUI.

Thank you.  Without your personal dedication, and the dedication of the entire team,  we wouldn't even have a Portal 2.6 UI to improve!  :)

anonymous wrote : However, our usability problems are not going to go away with just that.

I agree completely.  I think the issue is that there are things that need to be done for Portal 2.6 to release with a UI that is consistent and understandable.  

I believe there is a much larger body of work that needs to be done to revamp the UI in a fundamental way, as you seem to agree with as well.  This larger set of work is something that should probably happen in a post 2.6 release or we will be holding back some important features.  This may mean re-work and possibly duplication of effort.  But I would argue that refinement and alternate implementations are good things.

anonymous wrote : ...icons are not an end in themselves...

Absolutely true!  The end is that a person should be able to implicitly understand what the UI is offering for them to do.  This can be done with icons, text, or any number of UI tools.  :)  I think we agree on this point as well.

Which do we think would be better in terms of usabilty?  The icons or a drop down list similar to the CMS actions?

I'm personally beginning to lean more towards the CMS-like drop downs for actions with a "Go" button...

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