On Sep 25, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Nikita Konovalov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Liz, > > Thank you for your comments. > > Your concern about the case when more than three tabs appear sounds > reasonable. When we started to build a dashboard for Savanna, we wanted it to > be easy to install into an existing environment, so a separate tab fitted > nicely. We were thinking of moving our panels to a “Project” tab, but it > seems like there will be too many menu items in that tab. Anyway it will be > great if a new navigation mechanism appears in IceHouse Horizon and if it > does, we will adapt our dashboard as soon as possible. > > The consistency of the workflows is very important and the mockups are > not to be considered to be a final design, we just want to show what > functions will be available to user through UI Workflow. Of course the > implementation should look consistent with existing flows with descriptions > and hints on the right side and all input fields aligned correctly. The same > applies to action buttons, it’s important that the user can find “Create” and > “Delete” buttons where the are supposed to be. Thanks for your responses, Nikita. This sounds great to me. Liz > > Best Regards, > Nikita Konovalov > Mirantis, Inc > > On Sep 25, 2013, at 00:14 , Liz Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Chad & Nadya, >> >> Sorry for the late reply on this, I've been meaning to send some thoughts >> and finally had some time today to pull it all together :) >> >> First off, an additional place that you should feel free to post >> wireframes/design ideas and have a discussion is on our G+ OpenStack UX page: >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100954512393463248122 >> >> We are actually hoping to move this to use Askbot in the future, but for now >> this community is still very active and you could get some reviewers there >> who might not have seen this e-mail. >> >> As for these designs, I have a bit of feedback: >> 1) The addition of a high level tab for the main section of "Savanna" >> features might introduce some complications. I've been seeing a lot of >> developers adding tabs here which work if they are the only additional tab >> in addition to "Project" and "Admin", but it doesn't scale well if there are >> more than three tabs. We are trying to address this in a navigation >> enhancement blueprint for Horizon: >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/navigation-enhancement >> >> Hopefully in the Icehouse release, it will be much easier to scale out and >> add new sections at the top level, but I wonder if this would make more >> sense as a new "Panel" which would sit at the same level as "Manage Compute" >> under the current Project tab. Just an idea! >> >> 2) Currently in Horizon, there are a few "Create" modal windows where the >> modal is labeled with the action such as "Launch Instance" and the user is >> given one or more tabs of fields to fill out. The first tab is typically the >> "Details" section with the general fields that need to be filled out. There >> could be more tabs for more groups of fields as needed. If you take a look >> at the way the launch Instance modal works, I think the Job Launch/Creation >> modals that are being designed for Savanna could be more consistent with >> this design. This includes things like the "Add" button next to some of the >> fields. Here is a screenshot of the Launch Instance "Details" tab for >> reference: >> http://people.redhat.com/~lsurette/OpenStack/Launch%20Instance.png >> >> 3) This is a small point, but I just want to be sure that in the table >> designs it is expected that there would be some overall table level buttons >> for "Launch" and "Terminate" that would allow the user to click the check >> box for multiple items and select this action. I see in one of the mockups >> that the checkbox is selected, but I didn't see any buttons on top of the >> table, so I figured I would mention it. >> >> Hopefully this helps! I'm happy to chat more about these designs in detail >> and help move them forward too. Let me know if you have any questions on my >> thoughts here. >> >> Thanks, >> Liz >> >> On Sep 10, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Nadya Privalova <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've created a temporary page for UIs mockups. Please take a look: >>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Savanna/UIMockups/JobCreationProposal >>> >>> Chad, it's just pictures demonstrate how we see dependencies in UI. It's >>> not a final decision. >>> Guys, feel free to comment this. I think it's time to start discussions. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nadya >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Chad Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Updated UI mockups for savanna dashboard EDP. >>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Savanna/UIMockups/JobCreation >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chad >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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