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I'll definitely be revamping the UI in the near future. Also, a random note, but there are a lot of subtle features such as no pages (you just keep scrolling),
by cbeley 14y ago
I'll definitely be revamping the UI in the near future. Also, a random note, but there are a lot of subtle features such as no pages (you just keep scrolling), easy category exploration (items show up immediately on the right as you browse categories), auto-completion, table headers that always stay at the top, and other little UI things that don't show up until you have at least a few items in the system. It's many of those things that make it much more enjoyable to use compared with other solutions (at least, in terms of what me and a few others who have used it a bit more extensively think). I think the overall UI may be discouraging people before they even realize that all those other features exist. On that note, do you think putting a public demo that's populated with much more data would be a good idea? The biggest problem is that public demos are a bit outlet for spam and other abuse.
"I find that I'm really wanting clearer, and more compelling calls to action." -- I was wondering what you meant by this.
Also, I have been reaching out to small business owners and I actually have a restaurant owner who is interested. Whether he ends up using it or not, I hope he'll be able to provide some good feedback.
EDIT: Also, I was curious if you have any further thoughts about the representation of the inventory. Right now, it displays items as tables with the ability to customize what attributes you see while browsing (this can be changed by clicking your name in the upper right hand corner). When you say to explore other representations, are you saying to work more on just the displaying of the tabular data or coming up with some sort of hybrid-list-table thing?
- nickler 14y agoGet in touch by email, I can help more by sending over some excel files of example restaurant inventories that are currently being used by the industry. Restaurant inventory has clear needs that i can go into further, if you're interested in pursuing that market of course. I'm not sure they'll pay for it, and they're not the best early adopters, so I would hesitate to build a business model around them. That being said, take a look at http://www.scanitinternational.com http://www.scanitinternational.com as an example of one group trying to solve it.