[jira] [Commented] (OPENMEETINGS-1662) UI is bad..

["Robert Cooley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Cooley commented on OPENMEETINGS-1662:
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What happens next?  an intro?  no...
I attached an image of the default landing page.  It works, but if you put a little asterisk next to "the highlighted part on the left edge of the image, that if I put my mouse pointer over it,  a tooltip would appear telling what a conference is, same for webinar.  How are they different?  I think conference is talk "WITH", and webinar is talk "AT".

Now lets look at the top center,  Great!  some info about what to do next. OK, I see the highlighted "Start" button,  I feel lucky, I will click it..  Maybe make the start button green, to draw some attention to it.  It is in caps, which does draw the eye a bit..

Screen two, after I click "start".  No more help about the next steps :(
Lets look at the list of choices on the left, above I walled this the "Wall of Text"

Clicking on the first and the right frame tells me this is item #7, OK..
then we have going down the list, #2, #1, 5,4,3,6.  Not sure this makes sense..

"Micro" means nothing to me, maybe "mic" short for microphone would be better, after clicking this we have more space to describe it on the right, there please write it out in full, = "microphone"

How is a "Public" conference room different than a conference room?  I have no idea.  There is no help.

"Public restricted"?  what is that supposed to mean?

And "Restricted room"? restricted to who?

7 choices,  maybe some check boxes?  Public, Check, whiteboard, Check, Mic (for me, for all??!?), Check

Or "Visibility" with options for public, restricted
  mic, yes/no
  Whiteboard, yes/no
etc.

What I want to do with this is have 6 people, me and 5 others, share a whiteboard, everybody can talk.  Everybody can type. and see each others faces.  Which one does that?

Please make the descriptions in the right panel more verbose and explicit.  

Last, startup on my windows desktop seems slow, quad core, plenty of ram, SSD, but cpu is at a few percent and it takes about a minute before I can enter a chat.  Not sure what it is waiting on.  Not a big deal,  but there are unused resources available.


> UI is bad..
> -----------
>
>                 Key: OPENMEETINGS-1662
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENMEETINGS-1662
>             Project: Openmeetings
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: UI
>         Environment: basic install.
>            Reporter: Robert Cooley
>            Assignee: SebastianWagner
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: usability
>         Attachments: Screen 2.JPG, Start Page].JPG
>
>   Original Estimate: 24h
>  Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> first, package this as a docker container.  Why did I spend 4 hours installing components?
> second, what does these words mean?!?  
> Start screen:  Conference?  What is that?  A tool tip maybe?
> Webinar?  What is that? how is it different than conference? maybe a tool tip?!?
> I googled "openmeetings webinar vs conference" and got NOTHING to do with openmeetings, google just ignores that..  force +webinar 6 links!  WOW EASY TO GROK THIS ONE!  WHY?  
> OK, now I see the helpful tip hiding in the top right..
> How to conference
> Press start
> Choose room
> Check setup
> Start conference
> OpenMeetings, your web conferencing platform. You can either follow the 1-2-3 steps to enter a conference room directly or you choose the Calendar to set up and plan a meeting.
> So I click "Start"  then the help goes away...  WHY?
> Sigh, go back, copy paste into notepad...  
> next page.
> =======================
> Conference room with micro option set
> Users 0 / 32  
> Enter
> Public Conference Room
> Users 0 / 32  
> Enter
> Public Interview Room
> Users 0 / 16  
> Enter
> Public Restricted Room
> Users 0 / 100  
> Enter
> Public Video And Whiteboard Room
> Users 0 / 32  
> Enter
> Public Video Only Room
> Users 0 / 32  
> Enter
> Restricted room with micro option set
> Users 0 / 100  
> Enter
> ===============
> I get this wall of text, with NONE of the terms defined.  Help page?   Can not find one.  Tooltip, no, docs, not much more than a list of features on the homepage..  UMM  Version 3.x and ?!?
> We seem to have a mailing list, and nothing else..
> Basically every time any dev visits a UI screen, add tooltips for anything not understood by a 5 year old child.  and maybe a floating help page for where ever you are, with something relevant about what this is for, and what the choices MEAN.  Define the terms, explain the "Why"  show the flow.



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