[wp-hackers] Usability Interface Guidelines?

Seth Brammer sindas at gmail.com
Sat Jun 26 22:37:05 UTC 2004


I agree, an alternative would be to simply have a "save/publish
button", and that would be a simple fix, right?

but what other redundancies are you talking about? Now you've got me curious.


Seth Brammer

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:36:05 -0400, Torger Bjornrud <bjornrud at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I naively filed bug 124, titled, " "Publish" button is redunant and
> confusing. "
> Here's the link:
> http://mosquito.wordpress.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000124
> 
> When I filed the bug, I thought this was obvious and didn't warrant
> discusssion.  I could have written a response to mark's bug comment in
> the bug tracker, but I see the hacker-list as a better forum to address
> what is fundamentally a UI decision, precedent for future design
> decisions,  that WP I think should decide upon.  Upon more thinking, I
> really feel that WordPress could benefit now, and in the future from
> some quick & dirty design philosophies, and have them in a central
> reference page.
> 
> Essentially, I don't feel that in a specialized web application of such
> small scope (compared to large office programs, IDEs, or other
> software) should offer redundant ways of accomplishing the basic tasks.
>   This leads to UI clutter, as well as possible confusion over how to
> accomplish a task.  The best specialized systems that first come to
> mind to me (iPod, telephone, winamp) all have the common attribute of
> linking one resulting behavior to only one control.
> 
> Yea or nay?
> 
> Best,
> ~Tor
> 
> --
> Tor Bjornrud
> http://brainscat.com
> 
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