Explanatory guide text in Conductor?

Matt Wagner matt.wagner at redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 14:00:57 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:52:52AM -0400, Alexandra Settle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A lot of you have mentioned that it's a complicated navigational system that Aeolus uses... I don't believe so and I'd never seen Aeolus until 2 months ago.

Thanks! The perspective of someone comparatively new is really valuable
here.

Outside of the navigation itself, did you go through and build images,
create deployables, etc.? What were your thoughts on that process?

> Regardless, I've been looking at the progress bars today and I sent a tiny example to Justin.
> 
> I think the progress bar *could* work depending on how you plan to execute it,  however I don't think it'll work any better as a navigational tool but rather more visually appealing. This site is built to go step by step... and the audience that this product is designed for we're sort of hoping they can go from one page to the next and not simply get lost.
> 
> Something simple like what the Amazon shop site has would work (without it being a shopping cart, take a look and see what you think) if you want to continue with this visual idea.

Yes, the idea of using it just as a sort of progress indicator inside of
our existing workflow could be interesting. The only question is whether
our workflow is so variable that it wouldn't always be applicable.

-- Matt



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