Comments on: Eclipse Board Elections voting opens http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/eclipse-board-elections-voting-opens Task-focused productivity for Enterprise Agile ALM Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mik http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/eclipse-board-elections-voting-opens/comment-page-1#comment-23852 Mik Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:51:18 +0000 http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=20#comment-23852 Wow, 9 is a lot of clicks. I was hoping that most people wouldn't need to click at all, and that those interested in reading more would just click the single "Read More..." link at the end. I will continue to try to improve at maintaining a high information density and clear link structure in future posts. Wow, 9 is a lot of clicks. I was hoping that most people wouldn’t need to click at all, and that those interested in reading more would just click the single “Read More…” link at the end. I will continue to try to improve at maintaining a high information density and clear link structure in future posts.

]]> By: Eugene Kuleshov http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/eclipse-board-elections-voting-opens/comment-page-1#comment-23850 Eugene Kuleshov Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:41:00 +0000 http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=20#comment-23850 Not sure how the Apple analogy is related to my comment, but reiterating on the blog post: it required 1.5 screens of scrolling and 9 additional clicks to get information you're writing about. Not sure how the Apple analogy is related to my comment, but reiterating on the blog post: it required 1.5 screens of scrolling and 9 additional clicks to get information you’re writing about.

]]> By: Mik http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/eclipse-board-elections-voting-opens/comment-page-1#comment-23810 Mik Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:31:30 +0000 http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=20#comment-23810 > Couldn’t resist on that “read more” link. Given your company motto it should have > been “read less”. The whole blog post is also rather more then less. Ah, but this is where our version of "less is more" differs considerably from others in the industry. Consider Apple for example. Their aesthetic sense is amazing, and makes for very clean and elegant interfaces hardware that are free of superfluous buttons and features. Or consider some of the more slick Web 2.0 apps, which have a very simple and clean look. But there is a problem with approaches that put excess emphasis on the "less" aspect of UI form, since that can neglect UI function. Such UIs make us click a more, scroll more, and need to flip through more screens to get something simple done. A key part of our "less is more" motto is <i>less clicks</i>. In other words, minimizing the number of mouse clicks to get the information you need in front of you. This was quite literally my thought process when I was wondering whether or not to inline the main portion of my vision statement into the blog entry, since it would mean that people could decide whether they cared or not without clicking out of their feed aggregator or RSS reader. This tradeoff between inlining and linking in content is always tricky. If everything was built on Eclipse and the Task-Focused Interface it would be easier because we would have more UI consistency and ease of navigation, but we're not quite there yet. > Couldn’t resist on that “read more” link. Given your company motto it should have
> been “read less”. The whole blog post is also rather more then less.

Ah, but this is where our version of “less is more” differs considerably from others in the industry. Consider Apple for example. Their aesthetic sense is amazing, and makes for very clean and elegant interfaces hardware that are free of superfluous buttons and features. Or consider some of the more slick Web 2.0 apps, which have a very simple and clean look. But there is a problem with approaches that put excess emphasis on the “less” aspect of UI form, since that can neglect UI function. Such UIs make us click a more, scroll more, and need to flip through more screens to get something simple done.

A key part of our “less is more” motto is less clicks. In other words, minimizing the number of mouse clicks to get the information you need in front of you. This was quite literally my thought process when I was wondering whether or not to inline the main portion of my vision statement into the blog entry, since it would mean that people could decide whether they cared or not without clicking out of their feed aggregator or RSS reader. This tradeoff between inlining and linking in content is always tricky. If everything was built on Eclipse and the Task-Focused Interface it would be easier because we would have more UI consistency and ease of navigation, but we’re not quite there yet.

]]> By: Eugene Kuleshov http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/eclipse-board-elections-voting-opens/comment-page-1#comment-23808 Eugene Kuleshov Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:48:43 +0000 http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=20#comment-23808 Couldn't resist on that "read more" link. Given your company motto it should have been "read less". The whole blog post is also rather more then less. Oh, well, sometimes more is less too, if you know what I mean. ;-) Anyways, good luck with the election. Couldn’t resist on that “read more” link. Given your company motto it should have been “read less”. The whole blog post is also rather more then less. Oh, well, sometimes more is less too, if you know what I mean. ;-)

Anyways, good luck with the election.

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