OB ERP 3.0 User Experience

Openbravo ERP 3.0User Experience

Rob Goris, July 2010

Spotlight on 3.0

Problem

MeOBDeveloper

Developer

Comic courtesy of OK/Cancel

Objectives for 3.0 Redesign

Holistic,everything should make sense as a whole, not just aset of independent features

Focus,design and build what matters to our users, leave out the rest

Community,involve our stakeholders for feedback and ideas

Evangelize,getting buy-in is important. There is always resistance against change. And then..

Push, in order to...

Deliver, because that´s all that matters

Where to start?

Surveys

Usability Tests

Discuss

Prioritize

Refine

Share

Focus

Master-Detail In-Grid Edit Navigation Search & Filter My Openbravo

Master-Detail

In-Grid Editing

Navigation: Quick Launch

Navigation: Application Menu

Search & Filter: Column Filters

Search & Filter: New Selectors

Search & Filter: Distilling data from the grids

Search & Filter: Distilling data from the grids

My Openbravo

My Openbravo contains little portlets. Or call them widgets.

You can choose how many you want and what goes in them

Media Calendars Charts

Notes Feeds Maps, Apps!

My Openbravo

We will deliver a few widgets out-of-the-box

The community will develop more widgets. Free or commercial

$?

Delivery

RC1(NOW!)

RC2 RC3

3.0(FEB2011)RC4

Release Candidate (RC) 1 will look like this:

Delivered as a distribution of modules

Reduced core footprintDistribution via modules

Smoother upgrade Ability to use 2.50 modules in 3.0

Links

Blog Post: http://openbravouxlab.blogspot.com/2010/07/openbravo-erp-30-release-candidate-1-is.html

Early Release Discussion: http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/browse.php?group_id=100&forumid=808030

Live Demo Instance: http://79.125.106.26/openbravo/web/org.openbravo.client.application/(Openbravo/openbravo)

Openbravo User Experience Lab: http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/browse.php?group_id=100&forumid=886353

Stones, Kudos or Questions?