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Redesigning Test Run Forms...
December 13, 2008
I have been looking and admiring a lot of other web applications recently and have paid special attention to form design. Test Run's forms have gone through multiple iterations, but none of them are as simple as I would like them to be. I feel they require too much scrolling and they don't put the right emphasis on the right things. So I am in the process of redesigning Test Run's forms and would love to hear from customers what they think.
Before
After
Here is what I have done:
- I have place summary and description up front because those are arguably the most important fields on the page.
- I have devoted less space to the text format radio buttons and kept them closer to the textarea box that they control.
- I have widened the summary and description fields so you can see more of what you are typing.
Comments
About Byrne Reese
Byrne Reese is a product manager by day and an engineer by night.
He conceived of Test Run to help project managers like him stay up to date and informed of what his team was working on.
I think the improvements are good. One annoyance with the current form is what you type by default, looses display of linefeeds. You need a way to choose the text formatting in options as default format for all test cases, you shouldn't have to change it on a per test case really, then you could simplify it away from each form as well.
The length of the summary also often draws over the end of line and covers the edit button. Can't this word wrap or something to avoid this problem, we always have to edit our summary lengths to be short enough they don't cover the edit button link. That is quite annoying.
Added by Mike King on January 10, 2009 8:45 AM | Permalink