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d_p_robinson

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Usability improvement top ten wish list
« on: July 13, 2007, 12:40:09 am »
I've seen many gripes and moans about EA's usability (suffered from them myself) and I know that Sparx are keen to improve their product. How about a place to vote for our top issues that we'd really like Sparx to fix? This may also help them to prioritise work internally.

For a starter my top issue is not specifically UI but more the way it works. I hate the fact that generated and then reverse-engineered associations get modelled twice - once as an attribute and once as an association. This duplicates information and they're not coupled, so (for example) changing the name of the attribute has no effect on the association.

My second issue is less tangible: consistency. For example on a class Context\Advanced presents a different list from MainMenu\Element\Advanced. This has led to several support calls because I could not find an option to do what I wanted to do and it turned out there was an operation somewhere I hadn't expected.
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Re: Usability improvement top ten wish list
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2007, 02:41:33 am »
I applaud your request, but in terms of a place to vote, you won't find it on this BBS.  As far as I can tell (though only via a cursory look) YaBB still don't support polling (even in its latest incarnation - which we don't have here) which is what you'd really need to collate user's votes.

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