Usability issues - Contact list: Difference between revisions
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As it can be seen in the previous picture, the profile can be grouped in 6 categories which have different subcategories: | As it can be seen in the previous picture, the profile can be grouped in 6 categories which have different subcategories: | ||
# Profile: photo and photo description, country, city / town, email address, web page, icq number, skype id, yahoo id, aim id, msn id, courses, last access, roles, group, interests | # Profile: photo and photo description, country, city / town, languages, email address, web page, icq number, skype id, yahoo id, aim id, msn id, courses, last access, roles, group, interests | ||
# Edit profile | # Edit profile | ||
# Messages: contacts, search, settings and history | # Messages: contacts, search, settings and history | ||
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What would be desirable: | What would be desirable: | ||
# Profile: | # Profile: '''general information'''(which contains hoto and photo description, country, city / town, email address, phone number, web page and interests), '''contact information''' (which contains icq number, skype id, yahoo id, aim id, msn id) and '''Moodle information''' (which includes courses, last access, roles) | ||
# Edit profile | # Edit profile | ||
# Messages: '''inbox''', '''contacts''' (here all contacts are displayed and can be filtered by name, role, group, interests, city or country), '''search''' (it would contain the current search options plus the search options mentioned for the contacts submenu) and here there is a button to import contacts from other applications (gmail, facebook, linkedin, flickr, windows live hotmail, hi5, settings and history | # Messages: '''inbox''', '''contacts''' (here all contacts are displayed and can be filtered by name, role, group, interests, city or country), '''search''' (it would contain the current search options plus the search options mentioned for the contacts submenu) and here there is a button to import contacts from other applications (gmail, facebook, linkedin, flickr, windows live hotmail, hi5,...), '''settings''' and '''history''' | ||
# Chat: online contacts, set status (busy, invisible, out of chat, other), chat history | |||
# Forum posts | # Forum posts | ||
# Blogs | # Blogs | ||
# Activity reports | # Activity reports | ||
# [For the admin role: Roles] | # [For the admin role: Roles] | ||
Revision as of 23:35, 11 August 2008
When viewing a profile what other options might be helpful
Why people pull up someone's profile and what would they like or expect to be able to do?
The possibilities here for making increased use of social networking tools seems good. Ask it on the forum.
How are we organizing all of the information that is on the profile page?
What is the method behind the madness? How can we keep it from just being a random accumulation of additional information?
Determine some type of hierarchy within Moodle for the tabs that is logical
Current profile
As it can be seen in the previous picture, the profile can be grouped in 6 categories which have different subcategories:
- Profile: photo and photo description, country, city / town, languages, email address, web page, icq number, skype id, yahoo id, aim id, msn id, courses, last access, roles, group, interests
- Edit profile
- Messages: contacts, search, settings and history
- Forum posts
- Blogs
- Activity reports
- [For the admin role: Roles]
What would be desirable:
- Profile: general information(which contains hoto and photo description, country, city / town, email address, phone number, web page and interests), contact information (which contains icq number, skype id, yahoo id, aim id, msn id) and Moodle information (which includes courses, last access, roles)
- Edit profile
- Messages: inbox, contacts (here all contacts are displayed and can be filtered by name, role, group, interests, city or country), search (it would contain the current search options plus the search options mentioned for the contacts submenu) and here there is a button to import contacts from other applications (gmail, facebook, linkedin, flickr, windows live hotmail, hi5,...), settings and history
- Chat: online contacts, set status (busy, invisible, out of chat, other), chat history
- Forum posts
- Blogs
- Activity reports
- [For the admin role: Roles]
