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What do you do?

This is great, a buddy sent this to me today! It’s the truest flow chart i have ever seen! Note to self, dont let anyone know i do “web” work, it always leads to the same thing…

posted in: Design & Layout, Development 08.14.08

Design by

I have taken the time to update the design page with some of my latest work! Take a look around and let me know what you think about them! I will be adding June To-Do UI soon, as you may know if you follow my blog that this product is still in beta testing and will be until the New Year. It’s had a few delays in getting it live. I have moved it to the live server now for the current beta testers and it all seems to be going great! Also if you’re looking to beta test contact me any time at greg [at] winn [dot] ws!

posted in: Design & Layout, June Project 12.16.07

Importance in navigation

I was asked the other day “How do you decide importance in a navigation, such as in June To-Do?”. Well this is something very important to keep in mind when making applications. Especially in making web 2.0 applications, they are all about what the user wants and needs, very “to the point”. It’s all about keeping it simple, and then ask yourself “What is the user there for?”. Your answer will solve your problem, it’s really that simple!

Below we have a list that is from June To-Do, this list is unformatted. This is a real option that I had to start and then deal with later.

• Edit Contact
• Add a to-do
• Add Text
• Upload a file

The list above is not as effective as the list below; as you will see I have made some changes. How did I come to this conclusion to make the “Add a to-do” a field? Well I took a step back and looked at the application. The application is built for to-do’s, so that was my answer! I know that the user may need to add a to-do, but not just a general to-do this to-do is for that contact! So now we will change the text from “Add a to-do” to “Add a to-do about this contact”. Now I am using some JavaScript to help me with this one. So I made it a link and placed a “+” next to it, once clicked it will slide down and show the form.

With the “Add Text” I did the same, but I highlighted the wording to show that this is for the contact. Once clicked it will slide down also and give a short description about why you should add text to your contact.

Upload files from the same page, why leave? I did not make that a link I made it an actual form so the user can upload files right for the contacts’ page. Once again, how did I come to this conclusion? I took a step back and said what is MOST convenient for the user to do? Go to another page, or stay and upload from the same page? Well this is a big feature in June To-Do so I want to make it easy on the user.

posted in: Design & Layout 11.27.07