Explanatory guide text in Conductor?
Justin Clift
jclift at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 20:35:16 UTC 2012
On 09/08/2012, at 6:14 AM, Steve Linabery wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:08:41PM -0400, Andy Goldstein wrote:
>>> Ignoring my mediocre example text and the fact that it's just an
>>> unstyled paragraph tag, I wonder what people think about this general
>>> concept. Would it be helpful? Or in an app like ours, do we expect the
>>> user to know what they're doing? (Unlike, say, sharing a photo with some
>>> friends, managing cloud deployments isn't necessarily you should learn
>>> on the fly.)
>>>
>>> -- Matt
>>
>> This was something I've been wanting to see since I attended CloudForms training last week. There are several screens in Conductor (and Katello, for that matter) that could benefit greatly from some brief on-screen text help.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Big +1 from me.
Would a visual progress tracker be useful here too?
Something like this one:
http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mrandmrsSmith_pr.gif
That's from an article Matt pointed out a few months
ago for a similar thing (but for our docs):
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/15/progress-trackers-in-web-design-examples-and-best-design-practices/
?
+ Justin
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