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

[Andreas Balzer]

Patrick Broens schrieb:
> 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
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
Hi!
hm.. Until now i have preffered tabs.. well.. until now.. ;)
The screenshot of their CMS is awesome! I guess it's true. We only 
thought about TYPO3 as an application, but in real it's more than that. 
It's a word-processor, media managing application, and many many things 
more. Thank you for opening our - or at least my - eyes. I think so too, 
this is the way we should go.

Greetings
Andreas