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Quickpoll: Frameset Design Elements in Lotus Notes Client Application UI Design
05/07/2009 11:02:31 AM by Chris Toohey
In follow-up to my post from the other day, I thought I'd pose the following question via Twitter:
Lotus Notes Client design question: Do you still use Framesets in your Application UI?
The response from both Twitter and the various other social networking sites prompted me to create a quick MicroPoll:
Now, understandably, this is a pretty wide-open alternative with Frameset vs. 'Web', but I have this idea...
Look at the more successful cloud service solutions out there today. You're presented with - in most cases - a 3-column fixed layout with highly-stylized UI interaction with various functional nodes. Navigation to top-sections is fairly basic, with in-content drill-down options to specific content or functional sections.
This should be fairly simple to re-create within a Lotus Notes Client application without the *[conventional] use of Frameset Design Elements.
* - Have to give myself an out if there comes a situation where I'll need to use a Frameset in some unconventional ways.
And I know this won't be possible for every application-type within the Lotus Notes Client, as certain applications have certain user experience expectations... which begs the questions for those of you who might answer "We have a corporate standard UI": maybe that's a bad thing in some cases?
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Chris,
Wouldn't that kill off composite applications since that use frames and framesets.
Figuring out how to build better Frame/View/Form interfaces right now is pretty much like trying to figure out how to build better Navigator/Layout Region interfaces in R5. The halflife of your approach is going to be very short.
Xpages and Jface/SWT components are going to make this irrelevant.
It has been a long time since I used framesets myzelf as preferred ui design.
The only thing that might hld me back that I do not find a good vertical menu that stays opened in the selected item whenever you open a new pane from start in a none-frameset ui (Domino does not provide one at least).
When you work with CMS like Joomla you get those kind of menu's for FREE.
"Look at the more successful cloud service solutions out there today. You're presented with - in most cases - a 3-column fixed layout with highly-stylized UI interaction with various functional nodes."
Just to make sure we understand what you are referring to, could you link to an example of a "cloud service solution presenting a 3-column fixed layout with highly-stylized UI interaction with various functional nodes"?
@Richard:
Perhaps - not too sure to be honest. Will have to play around and see!
@Nathan:
Well, how many people [ content removed due to NDA ] with a chicken anyway?!
@Patrick:
That's probably quite doable - you just need to think of the Lotus Notes Client as a web browser...
@Timothy:
Facebook immediately comes to mind here. 3-column fixed layout, etc.
I don't make client apps. I use Notes to build web apps. I use the Notes client to administer those web apps.