I like the Office 2007 Ribbon and you can be assured MS did a vast amount of UI testing on it, read more about the process here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/
I'd go with context specific display of options. If you've never read Jakob Nielson's work look here: http://www.useit.com/ I think most advice is this: People spend most of their time using other peoples software, so don't be cool, be the same. If you've got money - I can send you the name of a company in Sydney that does some pretty swish usability testing (for an appropriately significant price). On Nov 12, 6:06 pm, Michael Neale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that idea was not terribly popular any more - Eclipse kinda > does it, and its sometimes held up as a bad example - always > surprising users by showing/hiding things. > > On Nov 12, 3:50 pm, ranjith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What would be the ideas to design a UI where the toolbar has to change > > based on the perspective? The perspective, however, determines the > > workflow that the application offers. So, the perspectives also should > > get appropriate representation. > > Currently I am thinking of something like below. > > Suppose the perspectives are as "Edit", "Group" and "Print" > > > Toolbar with edit perspective selected > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[EDIT]] [GROUP] [PRINT] <cut> <copy> <paste> <rename> > > > Toolbar with group perspective selected > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [EDIT] [[GROUP]] [PRINT] <collect> <move> <export> > > > Toolbar with print perspective selected > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [EDIT] [GROUP] [[PRINT]] <preview> <options> <print> > > > EDIT, GROUP and PRINT are tabs and rest is toolbar buttons > > This way, the workflow is in focus. But this looks a bit primitive, > > does anyone have some 'cool' ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
