Need Advice on GUI design

[BillG]

I am creating a Wpf app that will have a Navigator bar (Group bar) on the
left hand side of the main form that will display groups like Customers,
Invoices, Deposits etc. When the user clicks on the Customer group bar for
example the customer list will be displayed in a grid and the naviagator
panel will have an Explorer like task pane that shows Add a customer, Edit a
customer, Delete a customer etc.

I also have a ribbon control in place of a menu and toolbar. This is the
first time that I have tried placing a ribbon bar in a lob app and I am a
little unsure of how I should group things. I have a group on the Home tab
for Clipboard. Now my question is do I have groups for each module such as
Customer, Deposits, Invoices etc which really just mirrors the Navigator bar
or should I reverse the order and have groups for Add, Modify, Delete etc.
and place the various module icons in each group?

Bill

 

[Roman Wagner]

Hi,

the ribbon should only contain items related to the content of the
current view.

So first you have to decide what is your current view. --> I think it
is the panel where the grid is displayed and your "explorer like task
pane".

After that you have to find actions related to the current content
(for each Group Customers, Invoices, Deposits, etc. )"Add, Edit,
Delete, ..."

Finally you can group these actions (again for each of Customers,
Invoices, ...) like: Group1 = Edit (Add, Delete, AddAddress,...),
Group2 = View (Sort, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, Details)