1. Qmetry User Interface Recommendations
Ray Matsil

2. Issues— Tool-Tip Recommendation
This “hide pane” icon does not have a tool tip on hover, all other icons do.
Recommendation
Add Tool Tip to this icon on hover

3. Issues— Dashboard
There is no indication on the home dashboard that you can only add 4 graphs
It has a confusing animation when you attempt to add a 5th graph
Overall interaction paradigm is not intuitive

4. Recommendation— Dashboard
Indicate that there can only be four graphs on screen at once
Remove “reshuffle” animation effect

5. Issues—Hint Affordance
Not very useful to hide a hint when the hint bar doesn’t hide
The left and right arrows could be misleading
Seems like they would reveal more hints
Recommendations
Have entire hint bar hide when hide button is clicked
Have left and right arrows reveal additional tips

6. Issues—Hint Location
Hints would be more helpful in context

7. Recommendation—Hint Location
Focus hints in context
Attach supporting document to describe steps

8. Issues—Deactivate Inactive Buttons
Users should not be able to click buttons when they are not active

9. Recommendation– Deactivate Inactive Buttons
“Grey out” Inactive buttons

10. Issues—Menu Consistency
Left click in the left pane the Qmetry menu opens
Left click in the right pane and the regular browser menu opens

11. Recommendation—Menu Consistency
Standardize menus
Right click menus in right pane would add additional options for users

12. Issues — Icon consistency
Export report icons are not in the same location across the UI
Cursor does not change when it rolls over these icons

13. Recommendations—Icon consistency
Place export report icons in same location (either top left of top right) across entire UI
On rollover change the cursor to indicate interactivity

14. Issues — Flow Consistency
Clicking the blue icon brings the user to a screen with no navigation, this is the only place where this happens

15. Recommendation — Flow Consistency
Window should be a pop-up or stay within navigation
All other icons on this page bring up pop-ups

16. Issues — Consistency
In some parts of UI “send ” is a button and in some parts its an icon

17. Recommendation — Consistency
Have all “Send ” actions as a button or icon

18. Issue — New Pane Appears
In Admin > Platform when the user clicks attributes a new pane appears
Only place where this happens

19. Recommendation — New Pane Appears
Have this icon bring up a pop-up window
Stay consistent with the rest of the interface

20. Issue — Inline Editing
In Admin > Platform when adding or editing a platform it is done inline
This is the only area in the interface where this is done

21. Recommendation — Inline Editing
Either implement this in other parts of the interface or remove it
Stay consistent
Could help in other parts of interface

22. Issues—Accordions
Accordions can only be opened and collapsed by clicking the arrows in the corner

23. Recommendation—Accordions
Make entire accordion clickable
This will reduce confusion

24. Issues—Allow Users a Way Out
Allow users to cancel or exit during an action if they decide they don’t want to do it

25. Recommendation—Allow Users a Way Out
Add a cancel button
Cancel

26. Issues — Sub-Tabs
The sub-tabs in the right pane are difficult to notice

27. Recommendation—Sub-Tabs
Change background contrast to make tabs more visible

28. Issues—Customization
Flow chart revealed that a lot of action is taken from many different screens
Recommendation
Allow users to customize the screen they come to when they log in

29. Issues — System Feedback
When attempting to add a TestSuite to the root folder the system displays this message
Recommendation
Add more detailed explanation (why can’t you add it there?)

30. Issues — Icon Affordance
It is not obvious that Icons in Execute TestSuite sub-tab Automation column are clickable
Recommendation
Combine icons or change to links to stay consistent with clicking affordance

31. Issue — Visibility of System Status
In TestReports page when the user clicks different reports there is no indication of what the system is doing

32. Recommendation — Visibility of System Status
Have the page update the status
Inform the user while loading, when complete
Create animation that makes it clearer that screen is changing, such as a fade

33. Issue — Definitive Actions
In Admin under Release and Build tab > Scope Edit sub-tab there are no definitive Save or Cancel actions

34. Recommendation — Definitive Actions
Add a “Cancel” or save button to allow the user to take concrete action

35. Thank You!
Questions?