[openstack-dev] [UX] [Ironic] [Ceilometer] [Horizon] [TripleO] Nodes Management UI - designs

Tzu-Mainn Chen tzumainn at redhat.com
Thu May 29 03:51:26 UTC 2014


Hi Jarda,

These look pretty good!  However, I'm having trouble evaluating from a purely
functional point of view, as I'm not entirely sure what the requirements
driving these design.  Would it be possible to list those out. . . ?

Thanks,
Tzu-Mainn Chen

----- Original Message -----
> Hi All,
> 
> There is a lot of tags in the subject of this e-mail but believe me that
> all listed projects (and even more) are relevant for the designs which I
> am sending out.
> 
> Nodes management section in Horizon is being expected for a while and
> finally I am sharing the results of designing around it.
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/~jcoufal/openstack/horizon/nodes/2014-05-28_nodes-ui.pdf
> 
> These views are based on modular approach and combination of multiple
> services together; for example:
> * Ironic - HW details and management
> * Ceilometer - Monitoring graphs
> * TripleO/Tuskar - Deployment Roles
> etc.
> 
> Whenever some service is missing, that particular functionality should
> be disabled and not displayed to a user.
> 
> I am sharing this without any bigger description so that I can get
> feedback whether people can get oriented in the UI without hints. Of
> course you cannot get each and every detail without exploring, having
> tooltips, etc. But the goal for each view is to manage to express at
> least the main purpose without explanation. If it does not, it needs to
> be fixed.
> 
> Next week I will organize a recorded broadcast where I will walk you
> through the designs, explain high-level vision, details and I will try
> to answer questions if you have any. So feel free to comment anything or
> ask whatever comes to your mind here in this thread, so that I can cover
> your concerns. Any feedback is very welcome - positive so that I know
> what you think that works, as well as negative so that we can improve
> the result before implementation.
> 
> Thank you all
> -- Jarda
> 
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