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I used PostMan on the Mac for a couple of projects and now I'm thinking thrice before even starting the app. The UI makes no sense to me, but I would need an U
by fn1 10y ago
I used PostMan on the Mac for a couple of projects and now I'm thinking thrice before even starting the app.
The UI makes no sense to me, but I would need an UX study to find out what's up exactly.
I just know
. that I keep searching for buttons
. that somehow Postman never remembers my state. I have these "tabs" open, close them all, close the app, and when coming back there are tabs open again. When I want to close them it asks me about unsaved changes. (Which changes???)
. the panes can be resized in a way that you can hide their content, but have to fiddle around with the mouse to find the invisible point where you can size them up again.
. when saving a large response (1MB) from somewhere it keeps trying to sync that to the library which means that everything else is becoming really slow.
. It's really not easy to rename anything. I click on a Tab, duplicate it, now I have two Tabs with the same name (it does not even say 'duplicate' or 'copy'). I click the title to rename it, nothing happens.
. Oh and the title is displayed twice, once in the tab and once beneath it. Clicking on neither of them gives the option to rename. You have to find the invisible pencil icon first.
. I think the Tab metaphore isn't appropriate, especially the new Tab page. I would like to close everything.
. There should be a feature to auto-name requests or something. I keep being confused between the request, the description, the two titles.
. Don't get me started on managing environments.
- a85 10y agoFeel free to email me at help@getpostman.com and we can go through each of these concerns :) There is a big discussion on tab behavior on our Github tracker. There are different ways and workflows that you can adopt and settings that you can tweak. On environments: we have autocomplete and inline editing for variables on the way. That should help.
- on_and_off 10y ago>that somehow Postman never remembers my state. I have these "tabs" open, close them all, close the app, and when coming back there are tabs open again. When I want to close them it asks me about unsaved changes. (Which changes???) that's an anecdotal remark but it seems to me that I hear this a lot about webapps. is there anything that makes cleanly handling state harder in a web based app ? Or is it just that the quality bar is lower ?