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Friday, October 20, 2006

Joomla! 1.5 UI elements I do NOT like



The menu item parameters (not shown in full here) are a mess!
No real visual separation (like fieldsets), way too many options
all in one place, not enough explanations as to what all these settings will do
(try to explain Category Order + Primary Order results to someone..),
this really needs some work still (and is not final, I know) -it's a beta, baby :)


Already requested, not (yet?) done:
change the meaningless date selector button graphic above [...]
to something visual like this:

or anything else that looks like a calendar / date selector.


The Copy icon is much too pale, almost invisible on my laptop!
Just boost the edges / outlines slightly?!

The mix of underlined text and yellow warning icons in Configuration.
How is the user supposed to know he can rollover these icons to get a tooltip about the warning? The tooltip should be provided by the text label, same as for all other settings.

Personally, I don't like the grouping in the Configuration screens into just 4 items:
Site, Users, Content and Server.
It is NOT clear where to look for certain things, what would each of Site, Content or Server include?
Why is Statistics not under Content?
Why are Feeds considered Content, and not Site?
There's room enough in the submenus to provide a few more links to settings such as
SEO: Metadata and SEF URL usage or not..

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"It is NOT clear where to look for certain things, what would each of Site, Content or Server include?
...clip...
Why are Feeds considered Content, and not Site?"

I would assume because Feeds are published to/from the content of your site. If you were to republish a feed, and it showed up on your site, what would you be reading? Content, correct?

-Anonymous only because I can't remember my darned password...

11:08 PM  
Blogger eyez said...

-Anonymous only because I can't remember my darned password...
well, you could've signed still.. :)

The thing is, this is generally known as "SITE feed", and a normal user might thus be tempted to look under Site settings..

Anywya, this was just one example, the deeper meaning reg. UI design is: don't make users have to first guess, then remember where things are, show them!

11:25 PM  
Blogger AmyStephen said...

Doing good, Joe. Much appreciated.

12:56 PM  

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