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by agryson
Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:44 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
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Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

It also would be naive, that only counting would give valid results. You also have to interpret results. No one is going to add metrics until there's a general acceptance of it, it's a pity you feel that way despite the opt-in caveat, but that's your call. I was a UX designer for several years, and...
by agryson
Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:08 am
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Do we/can we collect metrics on things like this (opt-in of course)?
It would help remove the subjective aspect of many of these discussions, help us segment users into a few typical use cases and provide appropriate profiles or presets...
by agryson
Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:48 am
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Excellent points and i agree totally, Sketcher is better now but when i started in v0.16 it was a very... Frustrating experience. I wouldn't call it "hiding" functionality though. FreeCAD already organizes tools into workbenches to help focus on the task at hand - my previous suggestion wa...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:18 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Aleks wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:09 pm how the main window gets built?
I'm afraid i don't understand, you mean from source? I dunno, haven't looked yet, still getting my dev environment set up after my hiatus.
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:03 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Aleks wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:52 pm would only be shown if you hover over the command at least 2 secounds or something like that.
Ah, beat me to it...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:02 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

@Pauvres_honteux (j'adore ton pseudo!) I could imagine that being a dismiss option in the tooltip, but F360 does something smart there where the function names appear upon mouseover but the 'help' only appears after a delay of about 3 seconds, so expert users never see the help because they naturall...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:50 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

- what is the goal usage case? (proper CAD, tinkering) I think you and I agree that the goal is for FreeCAD to remain a fully fledged CAD solution. But the learning curve does exist, and compared to when I started in CAD, FreeCAD is now (with the increased accessibility of CAM solutions like 3D Pri...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:17 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Maybe one would need to make a summary of the command at the top of the page, so the user does not have to read through the whole page. The "Description" section of most commands is quite concise generally, if there were a way of only showing that content with a link to the rest it could ...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:59 am
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

Yes, two children and a house later! Apologies for the absence. I think we have some good opportunities here - as long as we make sure to bite off small chunks of the problem iteratively we should be able to do something pretty cool here. I'll be setting up my workstation again to be able to build, ...
by agryson
Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:36 am
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: My take on the FreeCAD GUI
Replies: 253
Views: 80979

Re: My take on the FreeCAD GUI

I love the work you've put into this. If I may summarize my views after reading through the thread: Regardless of personal preferences, one must admit that solutions like F360, OnShape and others are much easier for a novice to get something done for the first time. The question becomes why? I don't...