My primary job is working on an application that tracks things that the users think may be true. This means that the user should be able to enter alternate information about some things and select from that list of alternates, one that they believe to be "the most true". This alternate information thing is a new requirement and creating the UI is killing me. We have gone through about 4 revisions now and have yet to all agree that "This is the way to do it!" We haven't even come up with an example that everyone looks at it and go, yeah, I know how to use this.
My original idea was to use a massive amount of pop-up windows, but everyone said the users hated that idea. Which makes sense. My problem is that I don't think the alternate information feature is going to be used that often and I think it will be less painful and easier to understand that way.
All of the other ideas we have come up with so far, stink. Any one out there have any good ideas, or any sites where I could learn some UI principles?
Posted by carl at July 23, 2003 03:33 PM
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