Digital Collections Blog » Design http://blog.digicol.de News for our customers, partners and friends Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:49:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Struggling with the DC-X user interface http://blog.digicol.de/2009/08/27/struggling-with-the-dc-x-user-interface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=struggling-with-the-dc-x-user-interface http://blog.digicol.de/2009/08/27/struggling-with-the-dc-x-user-interface/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:26:06 +0000 Tim Strehle http://blog.digicol.de/?p=127 We’re currently working on a redesign of the DC-X user interface – while its backend has been quite stable for a while now, interface design has proven to be difficult and time-consuming.

It might be interesting to look at the design approaches that we threw away. Here’s the first draft from the end of 2007:

dcx_2007

We thought it was too boring and came up with this design in 2008:

dcx_2008

Before we had the time to polish or rethink that one, performance problems made us switch to a full Ajax interface. With only four weeks left until IFRA Expo 2008, we focused on making things work in the YUI framework, not taking much time for aesthetics:

dcx_2009

This year, we finally spent some quality time with the design agency Port Digital working out an interface that looks better and is more usable. Here’s the current state of what we hope will be the final user interface design for DC-X 1.x… :-)

dcx_2010

A big thank you goes to our customers, friends, and Port Digital and Kai Pahl for their patience and inspiration!

What do you think – is there anything you like in the previous iterations? How do you like the latest design?

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