Excellent work and great suggestions! -- Randy Walker
On May 21, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Alex Hempton-Smith <[email protected] > wrote: > I'm constantly asking friends and family to sit in-front of my Mac > with Silverback [1] running, to get their impressions of new > software/websites I'm working on - something I'd recommend to > everyone! > > I did this with my younger brother, and asked him to have a play > with the Habari dashboard, and he ended up getting pretty > frustrated! Here's the summary of points: > "The widgets are easy to move around, less 'fiddly' than WordPress." > "Why are there only three widgets?" > "How can I add more? Where's the big '+' like on a Mac?!" > "What does 'Latest Log Activity mean? Oh, you mean latest site > activity..." > He didn't know what the 'i' did on the Latest Log Activity widget > When he clicked it, he tried to close the config screen, and clicked > the 'x' thinking that was the right thing to do > Got very surprised when it disappeared, tried to look for an 'Undo' > button, even looking in the Message Log, but found none > Eventually managed to add it again using the dropdown > So, what do we do? Here's some ideas I had in light of the testing: > Perhaps make the 'Latest Log Activity' more understandable to non- > geeks... :P > Have a pretty looking tooltip appear when the 'i' is hovered over, > "Change the settings for this widget" > The 'x' should disappear on the blacked out config screen, and 'i' > should then have a tooltip saying "Close settings" > On the Message Log, to the right of those messages, could we > possibly have an Undo button? > Although it was very basic testing, I tend to agree with the results > and would love to get peoples feedback on this... > > -- Alex > > [1] http://silverbackapp.com/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
