Archive for the 'Usability' Category
Eclipse UI Real Estate Wasters!
In my last post I showed a mockup of what Eclipse might look like if we made use of a little extra space for layout and graphical finesse. For those who want to run Eclipse on a device with a small screen, I agree that a denser UI is better. But for typical desktop development [...]
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Every pixel is sacred (not any more!)
The Eclipse SDK UI design has always been about maximal use of real estate. We packed those widgets in solid! At the time this made sense given limited screen real estate but as the years have progressed, screens have gotten a lot bigger and a lot cheaper.
Consider the following. In 2001, when [...]
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Why we all need an accessibility Eclipse
I just read Wayne’s nice blog about accessibility in Eclipse.
As some of you may know, before moving to CS I did three years of Industrial Design. A lesson I always remember is that its a mistake to regard accessibility as a secondary design function. Rather, one must realize that we are all disabled, [...]
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UI Working Group becoming popular venue!
The UI Working Group is a forum for people to discuss Eclipse UI issues. Its available as a sounding board for UI walkthroughs, providing feedback on UI design issues, guidance on best practice approaches, issue of consistency, etc. Its members are UI expects from across the Eclipse community, so you get lots of experience at [...]
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UI BOF at EclipseCon!
We’re having a Usability and User Interface BOF at EclipseCon. Hosts of this event are the illustrious Mik Kersten, the jazzy Kimberley Peter, our fearless UIWG leader Bob Fraser, and yours truly. We’re hoping for good community participation, so bring your ideas, questions, complaints, and of course, beer.
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Guiding the user to Preferences import/export: You can help
The Eclipse SDK is feature rich. So much so, that its not uncommon for us to see bugs requesting a feature when in fact the feature is there, just difficult to find. This pains me, because knowing how much work has gone into implementing a feature, its a shame that still we fail the user [...]
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