On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2012, at 1:10 PM, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >> Well the point seems to be that the partitioning screen isn't really >> obvious to him .. tbh it is kind of awkward, but it is to late to fix >> that for F18. > > This is why I've stopped all constructive or destructive criticism of > anaconda. I find too many UI/UX problems which in the face of many more > significant bugs that I feel in comparison that the UI/UX criticisms amount > to polish. More serous bugs need to be fixed. > > Plus, the UI is changing and has been changing throughout pre-alpha, alpha > and pre-beta. This indicates to me that feedback is taken seriously. But it > also indicates an ad hoc approach to solving UI/UX problems, rather than > having someone particularly skilled with UI/UX vetting the entire design from > the outset. What I hope is that the infrastructure changes under the hood > make it relatively easy for the whole GUI portion to be completely > reconsidered for F19. That was not possible with oldui, it had too many under > the hood issues to make significant functional changes. > > Now, the OP's example screen shot is quite a good example of inevitably > negative UX: > > 1. It's 100% text. It hardly constitutes a GUI. Nothing graphical is > leveraged to convey the existing or new layouts. > > 2. It mixes new install context with previous install contexts, while > simultaneously not showing a stitch of partitions by default. Once revealed, > the overall partition scheme is obscured by the distribution based > organization. Does this really show the same swap twice once for F16 and once > for F17 as if there are two swaps? I think Manual Partitioning is trying to > do too much and that's where all the confusion comes from and the bugs are > creeping in. I also don't have any idea what behaviors are intentional, so I > don't know what's a bug and what's just bad design. > > 3. The installer should not use conversational tone with the user. It's > inherently adversarial. e.g. It is not my f'n fault there are no mount points > for F18 yet. > > 4. Create new mount points with + icon? And *right below that* are two + > icons, neither of which are what this sentence is referring to. The create > mount point + icon is actually not in the screen shot, it's far below. But > right below, the + symbols that appear are the reveal widgets for F16 and > F17. This is confusing. > > 5. Why are instructions for the GUI found inside a reveal section for > installation? This instruction is making up for non-obvious UI. You'd have to > explain how to create a new partition because by default we aren't even > looking at partitions, we're looking at distributions. So the + and - icon at > the bottom imply add and remove distributions, not partitions. > > 6. "Back to destination selection" does not at all convey or imply that > settings made in the current section will be discarded, yet that's what > happens. Because this button location is unique, and everywhere else in > anaconda the button in that location *does* preserve settings, it is > completely rational for users to either a.) become confused about whether or > not their settings are preserved when clicking this button; or b.) to assume > that they are preserved when clicking this button.
Pretty good summary why I think this screen is just a mess from an UI pov. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
