[LON-CAPA-dev] RE: User interface feedback.

[Scott Harrison]

Dear All:

If it at all relates, I have been working on something I call "LON-CAPA-beads".

The idea is that admins/somebody can chain together
the different LON-CAPA interface screens like beads-on-a-string.

This potentially reduces the "dozens" of interface choices presented
to the user at each screen.  Thus everything becomes a brainless,
unidirectional flow. :|

This may/may not work, and this may be only part of the ELHS
instructor's suggested solutions.

For the technophobic (of which I consider myself a member),
a really cool goal would be to make LON-CAPA incontrovertibly
simple for those who want to "start out simple first" and
then dive into well-supported complexity.

Simplicity is still a secondary goal though....

Regards,
Scott

> Ron,
> 
> I'd be reluctant to use the users list for interface design questions.  I'd
> announce any proposed changes and such there, but I'm wary of flooding people
> with messages.
> 
> I'd suggest the dev list, but that's not likely to give us the outside input
> we need.
> 
> What do other people think?
> 
> Matthew
> 
> >
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> > As luck would have it, the son of the NSCL computer dept. head is
> > doing AP physics on loncapa at ELHS this semester.  He already has
> > some uh... strong issues with the user interface.  I have asked his
> > dad to get him to post these to bugs.loncapa.org as enhancements. I
> > wonder if there's also an appropriate email list for this..
> >
> > lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> >
> > Although it seems the discussion there is mostly from the content
> > presenter's point of view.  What do you-all think?
> >
> > Ron Fox
> > NSCL
> > Michigan State University
> > East Lansing, MI
> > 48824-1321
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Scott Harrison, sharrison@users.sourceforge.net