{"id":37,"date":"2015-01-11T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-01-11T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:36:00","slug":"poor-ui-design-in-a-database-admin-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/poor-ui-design-in-a-database-admin-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor UI Design in a Database Admin Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another poor UI design.\u00a0Adding a database using\u00a0this layout is quite easy: click the icon with the plus (\u201c+\u201d) character over it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/current-design.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/current-design-1024x826.png\" alt=\"current-design\" width=\"660\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/current-design-1024x826.png 1024w, https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/current-design-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/current-design.png 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The current interface for adding a new database at iPage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dropping a database, however, isn\u2019t immediately obvious. The icon to do so\u00a0appears to the right of the \u201cadd user\u201d icon, in the right section of the page. It\u2019s likely there because the UI designer(s) didn\u2019t want users to mistakenly delete databases.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Understood. But, why not place the icon along the same row as the add database feature, but along the right margin?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/after-mod-design.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/after-mod-design-1024x826.png\" alt=\"after-mod-design\" width=\"660\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/after-mod-design-1024x826.png 1024w, https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/after-mod-design-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/after-mod-design.png 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A suggestion about where the \u201cdrop database\u201d feature might better appear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another poor UI design.\u00a0Adding a database using\u00a0this layout is quite easy: click the icon with the plus (\u201c+\u201d) character over it. Dropping a database, however, isn\u2019t immediately obvious. The icon to do so\u00a0appears to the right of the \u201cadd user\u201d icon, in the right section of the page. It\u2019s likely there because the UI designer(s)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/poor-ui-design-in-a-database-admin-page\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor UI Design in a Database Admin Page<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-ui-design","tag-poor-ui","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.vanegas.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}