On Jun 24, 2010, at 04:23 PM, Claudia Fleiner wrote:
I´m Claudia Fleiner and I work together with Patrick Koetter and Florian Fuchs.
Here I will present you our idea of a mega drop-down navigation panelfor the new Mailman user interface: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+UI+Mockups
As the draft shows, a mega drop-down has the following characteristics:
- The big panel is divided into groups of navigation options
- Navigation choices is structured through layout, typography and icons
- Eliminate scrolling: everything is visible at once
As shown in the draft, I put as navigation structure an example of the"admin navigation options". This structure will be revised into the right form later.
The icons I used in the draft are just placeholders. Nice Icons well adapted for the new navigation structure will be designed in the next steps.
I hope you´ll like our idea of using drop-down navigations for the newuser interface. Please don´t hesitate to send us your feedback.
Very nice. I like it a lot.
While I think we could use some re-evaluations of the categories, presenting them in this way works well I think. I think we won't have such a deep or wide hierarchy that displaying them all will be too confusing. The thing I really like about this is that I can figure out exactly what's going on in one quick glance, and can probably find my way to the section I care about very easily (certainly much more easy than today).
I wonder, would it be possible to put tooltips on those menu items?
-Barry