Friday, August 25, 2006 1:49 PM
JeremyKelley
Help me design the Pack Installer GUI
Okay, its time to ellicit some more feedback from you, the loyal customers. I think I've got a decent handle on the UI for the Power Toys Pack Installer that I'm working on. Unfortunately I'm really not an artist, or even a spectacular GUI designer. I've shown the prototype around the team and overall I think people like it, however, there's no better judge than you the user. So I'm going to post a screenshot of the UI, and as you'd expect I'd love for you to tell me what's good and what's not. But I want you to go one step further. I'm also going to post a short description of the basic requirements and I'd love for you to design your own GUI.
The goal here would be that many of you are certainly as qualified as I am to be designing interfaces, and hopefully if I've really missed the mark, one of you can show me a better way. Keep in mind, this project will be released under the Microsoft Permissive License, so if I use your designs, and you don't like the way I did it, you'll be able to join the CodePlex project (once its posted) and help fix it. So here we go.
Basic Requirements:
1. The Pack Installer allows users to select single or multiple packages to be downloaded and installed together.
2. The user should be able to see basic information about each tool in the list, as well as have a way to get more detailed information (possibly through the tool's website).
3. Tools are categorized into Packs.
4. A Pack should be selectable. Selecting a Pack selects the tools underneath it.
5. The window should resize reasonably well.