gistfile1.mkd

• taking notes for usability symphony backend *

• components

  • I don’t understand why there is this extra level of hierarchy. I don’t understand the intrinsic connection between events, data sources and utilities. Why can’t these be part of the top level blueprints menu.
  • I can’t perform actions on the elements from the overview. I can’t delete them.
  • Why can’t I click the elements like I can in the authors section? to for example delete them from the overview page, without having to

• datasources

  • deleting a datasource doesn’t ask for confirmation

• template editor

  • the page editor shows no line numbers
  • the template editor should preferably show links to the other templates in the sidebar

• sections

  • there is little visual seperation between different fields. that makes ‘add item’ harder to understand (because it looks like its part of an item that already exists) and it makes it unclear what will be deleted by ‘delete item’. (maybe mouseover?)