"Hannover" at Admin2006 and DNUG

April 6 2006

The View's Admin2006 is a little over a month away, and I'm way behind in getting my presentation done.  The session is called, "Lotus Notes 'Hannover' -- What It Means To You".  Given the weight of the topic, there's a need for the right focus make sure the presentation hits the mark.

The great news is that I've recruited Mary Beth Raven, one of the lead UI gurus on the "Hannover" project, to co-present the session at Admin2006.  Mary Beth will be doing a session at the DNUG/IBM Lotus Technical Forum on "Hannover" UI improvements... the Admin2006 session will contain a subset of that presentation.  In both cases, attendees will get to see the latest live Notes "Hannover" code, and talk directly with the woman who is on a personal mission to make "Hannover" the best collaboration client in the industry.

The Notes "Hannover" team has an incredible focus on user interface. Hope you'll be at these sessions to see, hear, and discuss the latest and greatest in the plan for the next release of Notes.

Ed Brill Panera Bread - Deerfield, IL USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [9]

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  1. 1  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 4/6/2006 9:42:24 AM

    I promise to behave, really, I do

  1. 2  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 4/6/2006 10:10:25 AM

    Miller, you never behave ...

  1. 3  Steven Joseph  | 4/6/2006 12:23:23 PM

    Every presentation needs a straight man and loaded questions from the audiance!

    How about those of us who have users who still can't get the bookmarks & welcome page straight??? Hannover looks great, but I think some folks are REALLY going to overwelmed. The we ahv the "older" crowd who still use 800x600 on their 17" screens..

  1. 4  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 4/6/2006 12:54:57 PM

    The good news is that the level of user feedback and usability testing for Hannover has been greatly increased compared to previous versions of Notes. The labs at Lotusphere were a good indication of that, but there's lots more testing going on, involving Notes and non-Notes users.

  1. 5  Andrew Price www.healthspace.com | 4/6/2006 1:02:43 PM

    @4 great to hear this!

    WRT 'improvements' in UI -- release early, release often.

    :)

  1. 6  Tim Latta  | 4/6/2006 2:13:07 PM

    Look out, Mary Beth. Ed will turn you into a road-warrior, world traveler if you aren't careful. ;-)

    Good to see you've recruited the best for show-and-tell, Ed.

  1. 7  Darryl Miles  | 4/6/2006 7:44:24 PM

    I find this an interesting read { Link } :-)

    All the best for the presentation.

    Darryl

  1. 8  MarvinK  | 4/12/2006 4:00:13 PM

    I hope they'll address some of the usability issues that we seem to see a lot with new Domino users. Trying to explain why the Sent view acts so differently than their Inbox or the sent folder in other mail clients is fun. Maybe they could look at 'Reply with History' vs 'Reply with Attachment'.. and save slow field users some headaches--no other common mail client includes attachments with the default (or most readily recognizeable) option. I hope they look at some terms... it is no small feat to turn of the ALT-key helpers (ie: for making screenshots), despite immediately going to the right area of the Preferences screen... because the term "extended accelerators" is ridiculously vague. Who's idea was it to have a Tools section in the left pane of the mailbox (ie: Archive, Rules, Stationery) AND a Tools menu option (setting mail db preferences, etc.)!? Really, most complaints are with the mail portion of Lotus Notes--and I'm sure the mail experience is primarily what people use to formulate opinions of the product as a whole. The OpenNTF mail template addresses quite a few of the clunky or quirky things in Notes mail... hopefully the Hannover team is looking at some of what they've implemented and why!

  1. 9  MarvinK  | 4/12/2006 4:06:59 PM

    Just a disclaimer: I'm not a Notes-hater. I think there are some nice things--we get lots of feedback about the Calendar functionality. Look how far ahead of the curve it is on tabs!