- Explanation boxes. These boxes explain the purpose / definition of the various scheduling layers in the software. They pretty much say what I would say, if I was standing over your shoulder explaining what the feature was all about.
- A how-to tips panel, right on the side. This tips panel has common getting started information, as well as answers to a number of common questions that I get about various features. It pretty much says what I would say, if I was standing over your shoulder explaining how to use each feature.
I also added a tracking calendar, per request from a customer. So now you can have a graphical side-by-side comparison by printing off both the scheduled calendar and the actual calendar. This customer wanted to submit both calendars to court, so I set it up. (He wasn’t the only one who asked for it though, I’d been asked a couple other times).
One other thing, I upgraded the programming platform and some components. This looks like some things should be running faster (most notably the provisions tab), and I’ll be tweaking some things to come to get all the horsepower out of it (I have a few ideas to get some more juice out of things). This upgrade should also kill any rare compatibility problems with the latest Windows 7, if there were still any lying around.
If you had uninstalled the software because you didn’t think it had some feature, now would be a good time to try it out again. I’ve noticed that quite a few people had wanted features that were already available, but just weren’t clearly enough explained. I’m hoping these new in-software help features will cure those ills.
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-Ben
P.S. I’m running another usability test – tomorrow, in fact. So if there are some more ease-of-use problems to be found, hopefully they’ll turn up then.