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  • From: Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>
  • To: José Manuel Macías <jmanuel.macias AT rediris.es>
  • Cc: "cat-users AT geant.net" <cat-users AT geant.net>, eduroam CAT development and translation <cat-devel AT geant.net>
  • Subject: Re: [cat-users] [cat-devel] Design advice: featured download for detected platform
  • Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:10:35 +0200
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  • List-id: "The mailing list for users of the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool \(CAT\)" <cat-users.geant.net>

Hi,
on
http://cat.eduroam.pl/
I have implemented something along the lines that Jose had suggested.

Since this is my development environment then be prepared that something
may not work as expected or even not work at all.

Tomasz



W dniu 27.08.2013 10:16, Tomasz Wolniewicz pisze:
> So your advice would be to display an information in red and below
> display the whole list of available platforms.
> This could be easily achieved with the current CAT design.
>
> Thus we are waiting for more suggestions/comments.
> Tomasz
>
>
> W dniu 2013-08-27 09:48, José Manuel Macías pisze:
>> Sorry, if I did not expressed myself correctly...
>>
>> My intention was to propose using this to simplify and make more uniform
>> the UX. These are mockups of what these buttons could look alike (apart
>> from the design and layout questions discussed before):
>>
>> http://www.eduroam.es/tmp/mockup-cat/index.html
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> jose.
>>
>> El 27/08/13 09:06, Tomasz Wolniewicz escribió:
>>> Hi Jose,
>>> I do not think that simplification of the work is really an issue
>>> here, it is more an actual design and layout decision that we are
>>> after.
>>>
>>> Tomasz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> W dniu 2013-08-27 08:56, José Manuel Macías pisze:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> El 26/08/13 13:15, Tomasz Wolniewicz escribió:
>>>>
>>>>> Indeed you have a point. Someone who has not seen the interface
>>>>> before
>>>>> will take the grey for a normal thing.
>>>>> The text telling that there will be no download is not big, therefore
>>>>> not obvious.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course if you click the button you will be told again that things
>>>>> will not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I could do in such a case is make the platform name smaller
>>>>> and the
>>>>> message a little larger and possibly in red?
>>>> why not to use an html framework for styling... there are lots that
>>>> could be used and could simplify a lot the work to be done, and you
>>>> can
>>>> even use icons (glyphs). Check this one (HTML kickstart) by example:
>>>>
>>>> - forms (includes an error message example):
>>>>
>>>> http://www.99lime.com/elements/#forms
>>>>
>>>> - buttons:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.99lime.com/elements/#btn-sizes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Some icons, including Apple, Win, Linux, Android
>>>>
>>>> http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/#brand
>>>>
>>>> - everything else:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.99lime.com/elements/
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> jose.
>>>>
>

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