Author: Lefteous
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:15 am (GMT -6)
I want to drive the discussion to a quite important aspect of configuration usability. The categorization of settings can be done in many different ways. I just want to highlight two.
1) Categorize by program area
2) By element type
To give a practical example. There is a category page called 'Icons' which hosts icon settings for different proram areas. In contrast the 'folder tab' category page offers all kind of settings for folder tabs including settings for tab icons. I don't want to criticize the inconsistency here but just ask what do you think is the best way (if any) to do the categorization?
1) Categorize by program area. In this case all icon-related settings would appear on different caetgory pages like Folder tabs, Filelist, Menu, button bar and so on.
2) Categorize by element type. All icon-related settings would appear on the 'Icons' category page (maybe grouped by program area).
3) A mix of both approaches for a meaningful reason
What do you think?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:15 am (GMT -6)
I want to drive the discussion to a quite important aspect of configuration usability. The categorization of settings can be done in many different ways. I just want to highlight two.
1) Categorize by program area
2) By element type
To give a practical example. There is a category page called 'Icons' which hosts icon settings for different proram areas. In contrast the 'folder tab' category page offers all kind of settings for folder tabs including settings for tab icons. I don't want to criticize the inconsistency here but just ask what do you think is the best way (if any) to do the categorization?
1) Categorize by program area. In this case all icon-related settings would appear on different caetgory pages like Folder tabs, Filelist, Menu, button bar and so on.
2) Categorize by element type. All icon-related settings would appear on the 'Icons' category page (maybe grouped by program area).
3) A mix of both approaches for a meaningful reason
What do you think?