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

[Andreas Balzer]

Jens Hoffmann schrieb:
> Hi usability Crowed,
> 
> last Week i tryed to push some of my Ideas about HCI and Typo3
> into a Idea-Pack. On the end i made some Mogup-Screen and a bunch
> of PPT-Charts. (I will work more on it in the next days. If the file will
> be updated, I post a info into this thread.)
> 
> You can download it under >> http://www.baiz.org/downloads/HCI.pdf
> 
> Please don't get me wrong, but let me say some thing for this thread:
> - NO OFF-TOPIC POSTS ... PLEASE ... just open a new Thread!
> - Don't write to long ... Everybody got to read it :)
> - Write the Chart NR. of the PPT, if you like to comment something
> - Check if some else already wroth the same ...
> THX :)
> 
> I get my work as Usability and Design thing.
> Not as technique, standards, accessibility, etc
> discussion.!
> 
> We need to get new/more Ideas, so pleas don't stop
> our creativity with technique discussions. OK?
> I know we need them, but later on! And i know
> for this, we always find a solution! :)
> 
> The whole thing shout be a inspiration and Idea-Pack for you.
> Have a lot of creative fun and share your Ideas about it :)
> 
> Greez Jens
Hi!
This is really awesome! Now we have an overview about every idea and we 
are able to discuss about them. That's really great. Thanks for that!

Well, just one OT thing by me as one of the official "button-makers" on 
typo3.org: Please care about the logo guidelines :)

OK..

Some comments about the ideas written in your pdf:
In the following you'll find an enumeration of the ideas i would like to 
see in this particular way:
Chart 10: I really like the idea about having a big area, where you can 
select the different options about your page, if you really want to do 
so. If not, everything could be hided behind "Add more options" or 
something like this. It would really make a lot of things easier. But 
don't forget to add a "Remove this page" button somewhere. (probably 
this could be done only in Chart 11 too) :)
Chart 11: This is a really nice idea. I like to have the possibility, of 
just move something into trashbin by simply drag it there. But of 
course, a security question "Do you really want to" has to be shown 
then, because you might just move the dragged item there and in fact 
don't want it.. ;)
Chart 16+17: The structure is really great. It's not as confusing as the 
current. And please: Get the Acessrights of our current menu structure 
somewhere else (and more easy)
Chart 26+27+28: This kind of menu is the best one i saw until now. It's 
easy to understand and it's looking great. I think it combines most of 
the other menu ideas. And plus: It doesn't take much space
Chart 28: I have two simple problems with this one:
1) I would like to see the save button everywhere on the same position. 
Regardless of a module, an extension, a popup or something else. Please 
move it to the top left corner. It's just easier to find there.
2) I think something like a "Save changes" submit field should be added 
at the bottom. Maybe a 'Close & Cancel' button too.
Chart 31: There has to be a text describing the buttons. It's not very 
usuable otherwise. An other problem is, that you suggested to wait a sec 
(more or less), until the menu shows up. This is not quite good, because 
most of the people, who are using this menu (like me) want to solve 
things very very fast. The menu has to show up immediatly after clicking.
Chart 32: This is very nice too, but it should be possible to view an 
automatic generated listtree of those items. Like "show list items 
sorted by (and in) categories"
Chart 39: It's not very good, to call the dashboard T3Board.
1) Many people understand "Board" as a discussion board
2) Most of the pople using TYPO3 actually don't know, that it's called 
T3. They are working in a company and want to do things on the company's 
website. Maybe something like "Company's Welcomepage" could be better
3) T3Board is to difficult to pronounce and to remember. The dashboard 
has to get a very easy name to remember, like "start" or something like 
this..

I hope my comments help you guys to jointly build innovative software to 
enable people to communicate, so we can inspiring people to share. :)

Greetings
Andreas