[nylug-talk] Feedback needed

[Daniel Son]

Hi jh,

Thanks a lot for your comments.
 - I was unsure whether to use single click or double click. decided to 
stick with double click, because it felt more comfortable for me. I was 
simply thinking to make a note non the top of the list, looking like 
"double click to expand/collapse" or something similar. As for expanding 
the list in advance, I though that a long list can make people feel 
uncomfortable. If you go to "modify search" from results view, it is 
expanded, and it feels a little bit too much.
- Mandatory attributes allow to filter out products that do not have 
selected features, while "preferred" and "optional" only affect the score.
- Link on the product name should show a pop-up with Product description 
and all attributes. you probably have your pop-ups blocked.

Many thanks again.



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jh wrote:
> 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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