DASHBOARD
1. I was just coming here to see if anybody else had mentioned the
missing "Right Now" section and I'm glad to see that you have. I too
think it would be a shame to loose the "Right Now" section because it is
one of the nice and colorful features that makes usability super obvious
for new users.
2. The so called crippled quick publishing box interests me. Maybe
this could be the new "Right Now" section if we did it right.
Imagine something tab driven. You could toggle between "quick post" and
"quick page" and if there were plugin hooks for us plugin developers
then we could add other "quick" things.
Perhaps "quick press" is right crippled now but that does not mean it
needs to stay crippled. It could be very powerful and save us all lots
of clicks. How hard would it be to add tabs and tinyMC?
3. Sheesh I used to mock Drupal for having vert nav. And now here I am
eating my words. I'm not saying anything else about it until I see the
next revision... but my money goes to doing whatever Apple do.. Steve
doesn't employ the best designers in the world without a reason 8-)
Lari Elovainio wrote:
He might have meant a mockup of how the finished design will look
Exactly.
The next round of wireframes are being readied. The wireframes are
changing in response to rounds of user testing, so there really hasn't
been a "one true design" yet.
Is there any one specific place where these things are published? That
would be good.
Overall, I think the new layout looks very cluttered compared to the
2.6 version.
DASHBOARD
What’s the purpose of the QuickPress box? On the dashboard you are one
click away from the full publishing page so why would you want to use
the crippled publishing box?
I also miss the Right Now section, bringing it back would also
eliminate the need to have the New Post buttons in the strange places
(the navs).
VERTICAL MENU
Oh my. I’ve really tried to learn to love the vertical menu but it’s
hard. Most of the time it wastes a lot of space. It takes two clicks
to get to most pages. The pages are grouped very oddly (I see this is
about to change). I think this scales more badly than the horizontal.
If you have all the submenus open and few new pages by plugins, you
have to scroll just to see the whole menu, what the…?
Look at how Windows and Mac OS solve this, a horizontal menu with drop
downs. What’s wrong with that? Just make sure there are smart top
level parent pages under which everything can be placed.
HORIZONTAL TOP MENU
What’s the point with top left menu (My Account, My Dashboard, New
Post, Comments, Help)? I don’t see any logic there, they seem randomly
chosen from the vertical menu, why have two places to access the same
pages?
ACTION DROP DOWNS
Are these necessary? Usually there are only one or two possible actions.
EDITING PAGE
There a lot of complaints here but overall I like the new features.
For example, the ability to hide certain publishing page boxes is
really nice. A very nice addition to this would be the ability to make
custom post/page writing pages, especially when the hiding supports
plugin created boxes, too.
Custom Fields require a better UI. Maybe there should be a page to
manage the custom fields that would allow to group the fields and
select the input method for each field, for example a set of radio
buttons or a text field. The custom field groups would each have their
own box on the edit page.
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