24 Aug
2009
24 Aug
'09
5:05 p.m.
Anca Luca wrote:
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Big +1!
Thanks Anca,
Marius
Hi Devs,
Anca asked me to finalize the overall look of dialog boxes in the WYSIWYG so
that she can work on it and polish it for the 2.0 release. Right now the
issue is that we're using a different look for the link, image & macro
dialog boxes which poses a consistency problem.
I've been working with Cati on a proposal for the look of the overall box -
not for the inner part of the box. Proposals for the standardization of the
inner part of the box will come later. The dialog box uses a wizard-like
look and follows the vertical form principles proposed by Cati in a previous
email (thus the primary action button at the bottom left, to follow the
user's eye flow). Its "hidden" features are:
- Buttons can be in an enabled or disabled mode depending of what the
current step is
- All buttons are displayed all the time so that they don't move from one
screen to the next
Actually, Marius suggested that we keep the "invalid" buttons hidden (but
without changing the positions of the displayed buttons), for the following reasons:
1/ the interface should be as light as possible, we shouldn't crowd the
interface with buttons that the user can never push
2/ disabled buttons can be a little confusing, the user wouldn't know if there
is something he needs to do to enable those buttons.
To help, imagine the following interaction model (which we envisage but it's not
a priority right now): in a wizard step, if the step form is invalid, the
"Next"
button is disabled (for example if the user has to make a selection, the "Next"
button will only become enabled after the selection has been made). Now, given
that the "Finish" button would be present on _all_ steps but disabled, I think
it can become a little confusing for the user, who wouldn't know if there is
something he needs to select, fill in, etc to enable it.
I'd go for minimal UI (i.e. all buttons on the footer strip, but invalid buttons
are invisible).
wdyt?
Thanks,
Anca
- Buttons' labels are configurable
- There is no "Cancel" button, the cross at the top right of the dialog
box plays that role
- The title in the top bar doesn't change and its name is the same as the
associated toolbar button (clicking on "Link" opens a dialog box called
"Link")
- The "Wizard Step Title" reflects what's happening at the current
step:
"Page Selection" , "Code Macro" , "Image Selection"
- The description tells the user what to do at the current step: "Select
the page to link to" , "Select the image to insert" , "Fill in
macro
parameters"
- Double-clicking on an item (an image, a page name) acts in the same
fashion as selecting it and clicking the "Next" button. If the
"Next" button
is disabled at the current step, double-clicking works as the primary action
("Insert" , "Create")
The mockups are located at:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/GenericMacroDialog
WDYT?
Guillaume
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