Design Recommendations for Kepler 1.0 Release

STATUS

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Overview

Design recommendations for the Kepler 1.0 release.

Kepler Proposed Re-Design and Additional Screen Designs

• Improve readability.
• Develop cohesive visual language.
• Follow standard HF principles.
• Improve organization.
• Incorporate consistent interaction design.
• Simplify where able to reduce confusion.
• Speak the user's language, not developer's.
• Communicate effectively.

Designs:

• Visual Re-Design - Downey recommended for 1.0 release.
  • Status, 12/5/2006, basically complete for colors and symbols but for a few minor changes. See visual re-design page.
  • Need to re-vamp all dialog boxes for consistency in language and layout of buttons and standard use and layout of common UI widgets.
  • Priority - high

• Menu and Tool Bar Re-Design - Downey recommended for 1.0 release.
  • Status, 12/5/2006, tool bar re-design complete. Menu re-design not complete. See menu re-design page.
  • Priority - high

• Actor and Data Tabs - Downey recommended first revision for 1.0 release, 2nd revision design is recommended for a future release (includes the "saved" tab).
  • Status, 12/5/2006, not fully complete. See actor and data tabs page.
  • Priority - medium

• Workflow, Director and Actor Dialogs - Downey recommended for 1.0 release (due to time contraints these will not go in release 1.0)
  • Status, 12/6/2006, not implemented.
  • Priority - high

• Search Dialogs - Downey recommended for post-1.0 release
  • Status, 12/6/2006, not implemented.
  • Priority - medium

• Authentication Dialogs - Downey recommended for 1.0 release (these dialogs of course could be left out if we don't put authentication into this next release)
  • Status, 12/6/2006, unsure and depends on if/when and how authentication is added to Kepler

• Semantic Annotation Dialogs
  • Status, 12/6/2006, current dialogs do not reflect results of formative design exercise with users and no usability review has been conducted. This is an area for discussion.
  • Priority - high

• Semantic and Structural Type Checking - preliminary design
  • Status, 12/6/2006, not implemented
  • Priority - medium
  • Current Kepler 1.0 Beta 2 type checker needs usability review

• Splash and Welcome Screens - Downey recommends for 1.0 release
  • Status, 12/6/2006 - splash screen complete. Welcome screen mostly complete, few minor adjustments to be made.
  • Priority - medium

• Query Builder Dialog - Downey recommended minimal changes for release 1.0
  • Status, 12/6/2006, incomplete. Some changes were made, others were not. See query builder dialog page.
  • Priority - high

• Actor Repository Dialogs
  • Status, 12/8/2006, need usability review, not turned on yet within Kepler.
  • Priority - high