UI designer Jeff Broderick has put together a dashboard of frequently-used settings icons and has used URL scheming in order to allow the “installed” apps to act as widgets for those deeply-nested settings. (via One-Click Access to iOS Settings with Shortcut)
One thing iOS is still sorely lacking is quick access to certain functionality. Like WiFi, for example. Wouldn’t it be great if that area wasn’t two (or three if you use folders like me) clicks deep? Same with Hotspot. Airplane mode. Brightness. Bluetooth. Etc. Yes, Android does all of this better.
Until Apple catches up in the widget department (and you know they will), these apps (which are really just URL-based shortcuts wrapped in a pretty icon) by Jeff Broderick provide great workarounds.
Just be warned that you’ll have to install an iOS profile to get each to show up, which means entering your device password over and over again.
OBS Webclient V2.0-Dashboard_Note-Snapshot on Flickr.
A mockup for a OBS Webclient 2 Dashboard.
The grey bar above the header was for important user informations like “We are going to have a downtime next Monday”. The colour could be changed simply by changing a class. It xoud be greyish, green, yellow, red. Depending on the information.
As it is your dashboard you can rearrange the “widgets” that they fit to your needs. Even it was planed to enable user to write there own widgets for there special needs.
What I liked was the idea of the Aggregator showing the build status of your builds with several colours. On mouse over you get a overlaying box telling you which project it is and serves some detailed informations.
The Mockup is a rapid prototype hacked together in HTML/CSS/JS.
IMHO the best way of prototyping after you have scratched down your ideas.
Prototyping in e.g. Photoshop never give the right impression of an UI. The fonts look different, the spacing does not match, and so on.
Workflow: obs-wc2 Package Management on Flickr.
October 2008 I worked on a new OBS Webclient UI. This in one of the Workflows I made for it … today, 2011 we still have the “good” old OBS Webclient.
The only change that happened is, that it wares now The Bento Theme … which got influenced by my work for Webclient 2.
Fond this page showing results of a card sort study by Dr. Siegfried Olschner. The study was about YaST.
