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Sage FAS Usability Area

Welcome Usability is all about designing effective products that enable you to achieve your business goals. At Sage FAS, we’re committed to creating intuitive, well-designed software that enables you to spend less time managing fixed assets and more time running your business. We’re excited to finally have an area in which to learn more about you and the way you use Sage FAS. We'll use this area to share potential design concepts, ask for your opinion or input on design decisions, and provide regular updates on the progress of development. We hope you'll have fun, enjoy being involved, and visit us regularly!

Sandbox Session: Please Tell Us Your Initial Impression of a proposed "Group View"

Sage FAS is in the process of "Moving FAS Forward". Although we're in the early stages of this product revitalization effort, I'd like to introduce you to the first of many Sandbox Sessions. In a sandbox session, a picture of a proposed screen design will be posted for you to view, give comments, ask questions, and tell us about your initial impression. Your feedback will help us refine our designs.

The image below, which you can click on to see a larger version, shows Assets in a proposed newly-designed Group View. I'll point a few things out, to give you some context, and then please use the Comment feature to tell us what you like and don't like about the proposed design.

Most noticeably, we've added a Navigation Panel to the left side of the screen. The purpose of this Navigation area is to pull out tasks and features of Sage FAS that are currently buried in the menu bar and dialog boxes. Within the Navigation Panel, notice that we've replaced the icon toolbar with a Task list, which will be context-relevant to the content in the working area. Right now, the working area is showing the Group View. In future Sandbox Sessions, we'll post other working areas for your comment.

Below the Task list in the navigation panel is a set of features that let you quickly customize Sage FAS. For example, you can manage Groups, add an image to the Image Catalog, etc. These features exist in the current product today but are often overlooked because of their current placement in the product. Here, we've pulled them forward into the main interface. At the bottom of the navigation area are the links to other working areas.

Within the Group View working area, you can edit the data inside the grid and we've added a group asset count at the bottom of the screen. You can also print the data in the grid and drill down to view asset details.

We will solicit input on this sandbox session until December 31, 2008. At that point, we'll consolidate and post your comments here on this blog and in the Discussion forum.

Published Nov 02 2008, 06:55 PM by jmiller

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	jmiller said: Please submit your Comments to tell us what you like and don't like about the proposed design. November 11, 2008 9:02 PM
	HRosaRuiz said: I like the alternating line colors, makes it easier to follow done the rows without having to highlight the item. Looks more user friendly. November 13, 2008 1:44 PM
	DJ91381 said: It is a lot easier to read and follow. I like it. November 25, 2008 12:02 AM
	Angie Bolton-Lyons said: Will you still have the icons above right below the menus? There are a lot of 'visual' clients and they might get lost if they aren't there as well. I do however, like the spreadsheet look and feel as well as the side navigation. December 17, 2008 8:17 PM

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