A New Face for ScreenSteps Desktop
January 27th, 2010 by Trevor DeVore
Over the last few weeks we have been working on putting a new face on ScreenSteps. We wanted to give you a few glimpses at what the new UI will look like.
Our purpose in redesigning the UI is to make it easier for you to focus on the content you are working on. We also wanted to tidy up the arrangement of things to give the application a better visual flow.
This is what we have so far and would love to hear your feedback. The new UI will be available in the 2.8 update which will be free to all 2.x license owners.
Lesson Library
Manuals View
Lesson Editing
Tags: ScreenSteps Desktop
January 27th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Hello,
I would like to say that this piece of software has been great for creating step by step instructions. There is one request, I apologize in advance if you’ve already done it, and that is the ability to have two windows open at the same time.
Quite often I will be creating new instructions based on lessons I have created before and it would make life a lot easier if you could see both new and old lessons windows together.
With thanks, Sandra
January 28th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for the suggestion Sandra. It is something we are considering for a future version.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:48 am
This appears to be much more MAC-like and pleasing to the eye. Conformance to modern design will improve the perception and make it subtly easier to use.
I’m liking it.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
My comment is that I prefer the previous lighter color tones versus the new black color theme. I like the existing blue and grey just fine, I think that the new darker colors are a little bit gloomy in overall tone. Just my opinion – other people may have their own ideas.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
David- Thanks for the feedback. The reason we have gone with the darker colors on the sidebar and toolbar is to create more contrast between those areas and the content editing area.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I like the new look much better, it draws the eye to where the work needs to be done the majority of the time. The current interface isn’t bad, but this is much better.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:43 am
Interface is much better this way. My compliments!
February 20th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Having sub-steps and conditional branching would be really helpful. Any chance of including that logic?
Otherwise, it’s a really good system. We are loving it. So are our customers!
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:02 am
Perhaps use a tree menu on the left, with the top of the tree being the manuals and subsequent branches of the tree being the lessons? Then the main area is just for lessons and you can more easily navigate around your manual as the full extent is always visible on the left? I not really fond of the open lesson and then “Back to Library” thingy, just an idea, I like the new scheme apart from that.
Will we have stuff like version numbers and linking across lessons?
Russ