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Our new UI is coming

dick — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:03:13 +0000

We’ve waited far too long.

After our move to Apache, we were always saying that our Web UI was too primitive and a new one was top priority. Well, the design for the new web UI is finished. The web designer Joy Reyes has been working on the new UI design.

The next step is to take this design and bring it to life with our existing code base.

Analysis of ESME UI Design from Bill Fernandez

dick — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:15:48 +0000

Bill Fernandez created a long analysis (over 72 pages!) of ESME and its UI design.

From Wikipedia:

Bill Fernandez is a user interface architect who was Apple Computer’s first employee when they incorporated in 1977. He worked on both the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, and in the 1980s was a member of the Apple Macintosh development team.

The analysis is split into various chapters including:

The Rationale for ESME
Conceptual Model
User Interface Preliminaries

There are long descriptions of various UI components in the next generation user interface of ESME.

If you have comments concerning the new UI, please add them to the esme-dev Google Group.

I’m all ESME’d out !

Mrinal Wadhwa — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:43:13 +0000

Working in a brilliant team like ours gets me excited, add that to the fact that we are building a very cool thing and the excitement levels start touching the roof … here’s a snapshot of my workstation where I spend my whole day .. Check out the dots !

Yes, that is the Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex based ESME Desktop client and No, I will not show you more … you’ll have to wait till SAP TechEd Demo Jam in Las Vagas.

For those of you who don’t know me, I am Mrinal Wadhwa and I’m contributing to ESME mainly with Flex/AIR client development. I will use this blog to talk about the client side technologies we used like Flex/AIR, the ESME REST API, the client side architecture, design patterns used, code libraries used etc. and also to share my thoughts in general about User Interface and Rich Internet Application development.

So, stay tuned and don’t forget to check ESME out at TechEd.