[TYPO3-hci] PPT: Ideas to improve the Usability of Typo3 4.x / 5.0

[Patrick Broens]

Jens, Kasper, Lasse and all others of the HCI,

First thanks to Jens for his inspiring PDF. I follow the HCI list for 
quite some time, but did not have any time to join it and send my 
thoughts to it.

As I'm not only an extension developer but also a graphic designer with 
a lot of knowledge in interface design as well, I think it is time for 
me to join this list as well.

In the HCI list I never saw anybody talking about a desktop-like idea, 
until I saw the PDF of Jens with a screenshot of Lasses backend skin. My 
opinion is we should go this way. Thanks to Lasse for the mockup he 
provided. This looks very promising.

We are not developing a piece of software like Open Office (or M$ Word, 
for the commercial freaks) but a huge framework which is actually a 
collection of separate applications.

Every user is familiar with a desktop, it is in all the operating 
systems and work 'almost' all the same. You have a taskbar, windows you 
can open, move around, minimize or maximize them or drag the corner to 
shape it your own way, icons on the desktop like shortcuts. This way the 
user can resize its windows to its preferred size to save space on the 
screen and open multiple screens which are usefull for the session of 
the user. It is also easier to switch between applications (modules) 
inside the framework.

I had this ideas about TYPO3 for quite some time and discovered I was 
not the only one who had this idea about how a CMS should look.

I don't know if anybody is familiar with the commercial Sitecore. They 
actually did it already. I've put a screenshot on my website (sorry, but 
my monitor of my laptop is running on 1920 pixels width) 
http://www.patrickbroens.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/Sitecore.jpg. It shows 
a part of the desktop, the taskbar at the bottom, the 'Start' menu and 
some windows of the applications inside of Sitecore. As you can see in 
the layout, the people of Sitecore are big friends of M$. But it is 
beautiful to see and works like a charm.

I'm offering help in the ideas and graphic design of the desktop from 
Lasse. He has already done a great job with the windows so please 
continue with that :-) Just let me know.

Cheers,

Patrick



Jens Hoffmann wrote:
> Nice new inspiriting Ideas! But this is no Feedback ... hehe.
> 
> Any way, i found a some SWF-Demos about the Backend.
> They are nice! But without the knowledge of the lang.
> ... no way to understand it (for me). :)
> 
> Greez Jens
> 
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> 
> Valery Romanchev schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>>> Please give me more Feedback! :)
>>
>> May be this will be interesting.
>>
>> Now team of CMS Bitrix (leading CMS product in Russia - 
>> http://www.bitrixsoft.com/) working on new interface concept.
>>
>> CMS Bitrix has lots of problems from tech view, but they do exellent 
>> marketing, promotion and now start to do good usability.
>>
>> Take a look at this (russian only, but screenshots is clear)
>> http://www.bitrixsoft.ru/blog/rsv/91.php
>>
>> They plan to make 3 tabs in the top (for 3 main "editing mods")
>>
>> 1st tab: no editing, just see the site
>> 2nd tab: edit (something like FE editing with pencil icons and popus 
>> in TYPO3)
>> 3d tab: configuration with site structire (something like Page and 
>> List modules in TYPO3)
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Valery Romanchev
>> http://www.typo3lab.com
>>
>>
>>