Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] App Within Minutes - Improvements

Hello, I've updated the gallery from Overview : http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesImprovement… . I added screenshots of application's pages from before and after the proposal. Thanks, Gabriela *Gabriela Smeria* *Web Developer* gabriela.smeria(a)xwiki.com skype: smeria.gabriela On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Gabriela Smeria &lt;gabriela.smeria(a)xwiki.com > Hello, > > Thanks for your replies. I will answer also on Marius' first answer. > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea < > mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> >> Hi Gabriela, >> >> Thanks for this proposal. As a general remark, it's not easy to see >> the differences between your proposal and the current state. A >> side-by-side comparison would have helped. >> > > I thought about that also. I will update the photos on exo. > > >> >> = Wizard Header = >> >> I like how the step number is displayed before the step title. I don't >> see be benefit of not showing the numbers for the steps on the right. >> Also, I'm not sure blue is the best color to mark the current step. >> > > I investigated this approach and blue seemed to be the most used color for > the current step. For the next step, I don't know if grey is the best > color, but I tried another several ones and they didn't fit with Flamingo > Skin. > > >> >> = Icons = >> >> Are all those icons available in the Icon Theme? Some of the icons are >> not well chosen. For instance we are already using the "bricks" icon >> for XWiki Objects (in the document tree and the search UI). I don't >> think it's suited for "Steps". I wouldn't put icons everywhere just >> for the sake of having an icon, unless that icon is really useful. I >> don't think we need icons everywhere. >> > > I think they are useful and they help the user to identify quickly that > field's meaning. > I know that some of them aren't well chosen, but I there weren't that many > to choose from and I thought that those were the best fit. > > >> >> = Home Page = >> >> I'm not convinced by the position of the new buttons. They don't look >> right for me because there is also Edit & More Action above. I feel >> there are too many buttons spread over the page. Some options (no >> necessarily better): >> >> * display the buttons on the left, above the live table (we plan to >> add batch operations to the live table and we'll add some buttons >> there anyway) >> > > Honestly, I also wanted to move them to the left, but I didn't have the > courage since all the other apps have the 'Add' button on the right and I > thought that maybe this approach won't fit in the patterns from Flamingo. > > >> * merge the buttons with the Edit / More Actions. Display Add Entry >> before Edit and put app actions inside More Actions >> > > I agree with Jean on this one. I don't think end-users would be that > intuitive to find application's actions in 'More actions' button from > above. But that may be wrong, I don't know for sure. > > >> * move Add Entry to the top menu (as an option under the Add button) >> and the app actions inside other menus or inside More Actions >> > > I'm not sure that this is better, also. > > >> >> Hope this helps, >> > > It really helped. Thanks! > > >> Marius >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Gabriela Smeria >> &lt;gabriela.smeria(a)xwiki.com>> > Hello, >> > >> > I made a proposal on how we could improve App Within Minutes design. >> > In order to have an idea about that, you can visit - >> > >> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesImprovement… >> > . >> > >> > The main purpose of creating this design proposal is to help integrate >> the >> > following applications created with App Within Minutes with Flamingo >> Skin. >> > >> > What I would like for you to take into consideration is the new layout >> for >> > the homepage of newly created applications, since there I proposed a >> bigger >> > change. >> > >> > Thank you, >> > Gabriela >> > >> > <http://www.xwiki.com/> *Gabriela Smeria* >> > *Web Developer * >> > gabriela.smeria(a)xwiki.com &lt;corina.luong(a)xwiki.com&gt; >> > tel: +40 742 024 392 >> > skype: smeria.gabriela >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > devs(a)xwiki.org >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs(a)xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > >