When it comes to a wizard, there is an expected flow. You should be able to move forward or back, and screen that take you out of the wizard should be avoided. Those are something you should avoid according to the wizard paradigm. If you go through the DS wizard, it is obvious to the developers who wrote it, not to the users. One way in which people improve usability is give a set of things to be done by new users, and watch what they do. Perhaps you guys can watch me doing something and learn from the mistakes I make.
Thanks Azeez On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Anjana Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Azeez, > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > > The wizard is not really a wizard since it does not necessarily follow a > > flow. Also, if you do things in the wrong order, bad things happen & NPEs > > fly. These things normally happen at the wrong time; during demos :) > > I do agree on the UI issues, the DSS UI is very fragile, and we've > been planning on rewriting the DSS UI soon. As in, some validations > are missing I guess, for instance, if you just enter an url of a > specific page by hand - something in the middle of the wizard, most > probably it'll give some unexpected errors. > > But, when you said, 'not following a flow', can you elaborate on that > a bit more? .. Because, I was having the impression, the current DS > wizard is pretty simple in a way that, it follows the below flow for > the normal service creation. > > Start Service Creation -> Create Data Source(s) -> Create Queries -> > Create Operation(s) / Resource(s). > > What kind of a flow are you suggesting? .. > > Cheers, > Anjana. > > > > > -- > > Afkham Azeez > > Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, > > > > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > > email: [email protected] cell: +94 77 3320919 > > blog: http://blog.afkham.org > > twitter: http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez > > linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez > > > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Carbon-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > > > > > > > -- > Anjana Fernando > Software Engineer > WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > lean.enterprise.middleware > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > -- *Afkham Azeez* Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, * * *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> * email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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