From: "Aaron Weitekamp" <aweiteka(a)redhat.com>
To: "Tzu-Mainn Chen" <tzumainn(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "aeolus-devel" <aeolus-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>, "Jaromír
Coufal" <jcoufal(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:05:08 AM
Subject: Re: RFC: Navigation restructuring
On 12/04/2012 10:27 AM, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
>
> Just to address this particular question - in my opinion, it is
> absolutely a navigation problem. I agree that the table widget is
> nice, but that fixes specific pages. Jaromir's point (which I
> agree with) is that it's hard to even navigate to that specific
> page right now. If a first time user started up Conductor, he'd
> have no instinctive way to know where to manage providers.
>
> Mainn
>
Yes, navigation is broken, but just fixing the site map is not a very
difficult problem. Jaromír's wireframes address a deeper issue which
is
solved by leveraging a widget model (soon to be part of
Converge-ui/Alchemy?[1]). Along the way, as my post suggests, we're
able
to simplify navigation.
We might just be arguing over approach here. I'm no usability expert, but I think
that taking a step back and asking: "how does a user want to use Conductor?"
makes sense. And when asking that question, I think it makes sense to start with site
navigation and clearly define how it should work. The page content is definitely an issue
as well, but I don't think it's a deeper issue than our navigation.
Mainn