[TYPO3-hci] Progressive Disclosure

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Patrick Gaumond wrote:
> Our friend   ; )   Nielsen just sent this piece:
> 
> Progressive Disclosure
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/progressive-disclosure.html
> 
> 
> I think it recapitulate what few people already said:
> 
> 1- Hide advanced stuff
> 2- Provide a way to get advanced stuff for power users.
> 
> Kasper already did some work around this when he placed the "Show
> secondary options (palettes)". We just need to go further and maybe
> provide some popular prefs like HTMLarea does with its "Default
> configuration settings": Typical, Minimal, Demo/Show-off.

Hi Patrick,

The point here was always in my opinion that the interface is cluttered with
choices. Should a user check this or check that? One of the major things we
hacked for some projects is the possibility to preset the checkboxes and hide them.

> And thinking about this, we're back to the infamous "Roles"...

Sebastian wants to implement his Backend ACL's at some point. That would be cool.

> Anyway, just read the article to refresh what you already know. ;)

tHNx for the pointer ;-)

gRTz

ben
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