On 09/08/2012, at 6:14 AM, Steve Linabery wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:08:41PM -0400, Andy Goldstein wrote: >>> Ignoring my mediocre example text and the fact that it's just an >>> unstyled paragraph tag, I wonder what people think about this general >>> concept. Would it be helpful? Or in an app like ours, do we expect the >>> user to know what they're doing? (Unlike, say, sharing a photo with some >>> friends, managing cloud deployments isn't necessarily you should learn >>> on the fly.) >>> >>> -- Matt >> >> This was something I've been wanting to see since I attended CloudForms >> training last week. There are several screens in Conductor (and Katello, >> for that matter) that could benefit greatly from some brief on-screen text >> help. >> >> Andy > > Big +1 from me.
Would a visual progress tracker be useful here too? Something like this one: http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mrandmrsSmith_pr.gif That's from an article Matt pointed out a few months ago for a similar thing (but for our docs): http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/15/progress-trackers-in-web-design-examples-and-best-design-practices/ ? + Justin -- Aeolus Community Manager http://www.aeolusproject.org
