Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Too many interfaces?

I'm now planning to have the following user interfaces:
  1. guest,
  2. basic,
  3. advanced,
  4. expert,
  5. master and
  6. power.

This will allow users to learn the Ark in easy stages. Power is the old interface, but without wasting space on help or command lists. Master uses a command line interface like power, but with a list of helps down the left side.

Guest, basic, advanced and expert then are all click interfaces without a command line. Expert will have most of the commands, some commands and options being left out as they are best handled with a command line interface.

Guest is browsing at its simplest, while basic will support creation, maintenance and reorganization. Advanced then introduces namespace management.

And yes, things are progressing nicely. Only a few more days now until a first release of basic. ;-)

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