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Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by David Beaumont

David Beaumont — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:25:12 +0000

I think mockup #1 will give the user a better look/feel for the UI.

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Josh Knutson

Josh Knutson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:32 +0000

Mockup one, but move the top tabs to the very top of the page like Google Apps does it to help separate it out, otherwise if the open incidents can keep going forever then just have them in a list page or a left nav maybe…maybe a drop down otherwise

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Ali Nakipoglu

Ali Nakipoglu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:59 +0000

I thinks Mock 1. Because its more organized and extensible.

Or an easy way to find which one, just count pros and compare them

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by mike

mike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:15:50 +0000

I like the stacked tabs. Why don’t you have it display the secondary items when hovering the tab to prevent your “2-click” issue. Check out the Jquery Superfish menu’s nav-bar sample.

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Brian Swartzfager

Brian Swartzfager — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:16 +0000

I think the first mockup is the better of the two, especially if the other module areas (timesheets, users) also have multiple context areas.

But I have a question: what happens to the interface if the number of open incidents is large (12-20)? Ideally, a user’s number of open incidents would be small, but things happen…

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Russ S.

Russ S. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:50:40 +0000

Mockup #1, by far.
Sub-links should never be confused with top-level links.

If sub-links must always be visible, you shouldn’t use a tab-based nav.
A simple tree menu might work better?

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Carly

Carly — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:53:00 +0000

I prefer the 2 levels of navigation. Clicking twice for some tasks would seem quicker then scanning through the possibly long one menu of possibly unrelated tasks.

Comment on Which interface do you prefer? by Brad Wood

Brad Wood — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:52:51 +0000

I’m not really a front-end guy, but I prefer the nested tabs. My main question would be how many sub tabs you might end up with. The interface could really break down as soon as you had 75 incident numbers to display.

Comment on CF9 & Development Environment Presentations (CFUG QLD) by Gary F

Gary F — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:54:51 +0000

What new features do you think make it a $4500 “must have” upgrade? (I’m in the UK and run Enterprise, so everything Adobe sells here is at an inflated price.)

I was hoping to see some BIG features like cfaudio and cfvideo. With so much rich media content on the web it’s unfortunate that CF offers nothing to make it easier to code sites that let users upload video then resize, transcode, trim, and merge clips together. So much video and audio power is built into the Flash player to view (and record!) content but CF developers can’t easily create and process that sort of content without using other tools (sometimes quite expensive and requiring other programming skills) and patching some sort of workable system together.

I know there’s Flex but not everyone wants to learn a new language. Some people still think that using a few HTML-like tags to perform complex tasks is both very cool and a wonderful time saver.

Comment on CF9 & Development Environment Presentations (CFUG QLD) by GarethE

GarethE — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:16:02 +0000

I believe there is more to come.

Although, I would say some of the features already annouced make it a must have. At least I believe a development team would like to have it ( I want it ). I’m interested? what are you looking for? Maybe it doesn’t appeal to some that want more Charting, or visual wizbang components.

Cheers
Gareth