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David E. Jones commented on OFBIZ-2103:
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You're starting to get at a reason with this:
"The goal I am trying to reach is to have UI more user friendly, easier to find
things, easier to remember how to operate, more room for what is really needed."
However, you stopped short of applying it to this question of the main screen,
and I'm actually not sure what the rest of it even has to do with the main
screen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm big into user interfaces. During my short stint in
graduate school that is what I studied. It was the case then, and is perhaps
even more the case now, that many recommendations are well meaning but
misguided. I use the word misguided on purpose because that's the real
problem... if you don't define an objective and then test what is developed
against that objective, nothing else really matters and the software won't be
usable. Obviously you have to use good practices in order to get close to a
good design, but without user testing and such you'll never know if those "good
practices" got you there.
There are hundreds of lists like the one you sent a URL to, and they are
interesting, but not nearly as useful as the stuff done by (for example) the
Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com/). These guys have been around for
years and have both produced pretty classic books, and Don Norman's book "The
Design of Everyday Things" is a must read for anyone who might find themselves
in the uncomfortable position of actually designing something that may be used
by real people. In the retail world a book even less related to software, but
with excellent practices and patterns, is Why We Buy by Paco Underhill.
Anyway, back to the point... without a purpose/goal defined for a screen you
can't design to it. Again, consistency is not the goal but a tool to reach
certain goals... so what is the goal for this page?
> Updating Webtool JobList to use PerformFind and FindScreenDecorator
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> Key: OFBIZ-2103
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2103
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: framework
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
> Fix For: SVN trunk
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> Attachments: WebToolsTabBar.patch, WebToolsTabBar.patch,
> WebToolsTabBar.patch, WebToolsTabBar.patch
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>
> Hi,
> I did some update on webtool JobList.
> Basically the JobList follows now a more recent pattern with usage of
> PerformFind, Sortable columns and Collapsible FindScreenDecorator.
> I tryed it in a framework-only installation but it should work in a full
> OFBiz also.
> If this is OK I think I will do a similar job on ServiceList.
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