[nylug-talk] Feedback needed

[jh]

I'm looking forward to seeing more. A couple of quick comments:

Daniel Son wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am working on a small project that I see as a software catalog 
> searchable by features and functionality. There is still lots of data to 
> put into the database (working on it really hard), but I would like to 
> get as much feedback as possible about the following topics:
> 1) what's people experience using the resource;
> 2) Accuracy of the information that is already there (need to do some 
> extra work on it anyways)
> 3) Anything to add (categories, well lots of them are being added in any 
> case; products: (see categories); functionality: i am working on few 
> extra features)
> 4) browser specific bugs (main testing is done using firefox, but other 
> browsers are tested as well, just not as frequently)
> 5) anything else ...

 From a usability point of of view:

+ It is unusual, but welcome, to see a webapp that support a double 
click (it opens the categories for me). I think that most folks will be 
more used to a single click on the top-level category to "explode" it.

+ I'd suggest that if you keep the double click, that you should expand 
the use. A double-click on an attribute on the left side should probably 
cause some action - perhaps either defaulting to populating the 
Preferred Attributes section, or populating a section on the right 
that's highlighted (if that's even possible - I don't know my Ajax all 
that well).

+ It was unclear to me that having Mandatory Attributes was, well, 
mandatory.

+ In the results: why not make the Product Name hyperlink do something? 
Perhaps you don't need the URL column.

Again, nicely done, looking forward to more.

jh


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