Interesting ‘Summary’ UI
I spent a good part of today setting up, playing with and blogging about my new Airport Extreme. Part of the process included using the recently revamped AirPort Utility.app. While well designed overall I really found the way they approached the need to summarize data interesting.
When you are about to configure the base station it will offer the choice to be assisted or do the setup manually. Clearly when you are doing the setup manually there will be a lot of choices and in a predictable way they split up the fields through a number of standard Aqua tabs. What is unique is the fact that the first tab is a summary view of the whole configuration and as you hover over the labels you can click them and it will take you to the tab that info lives in and put focus on that specific area of the UI.
A short movie of the labels in action.
I can’t say if this is a truly unique UI approach but I can say I’m intrigued by it.
Posted on: April 19, 2007 – 11:44 pm
One Comment
I like it but, i would like to see that If the user hoover over the label and that label will opens a tab, there should be a tab notification, something like the small bar arround the tab what is used by the space bar to select that tab.
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