Details Pages

Each application and add-on has a page which provides information about it, as well as controls for installation/removal.

Goals

  • Prioritise the most interesting/important information.
  • Be engaging.
  • Include:
    • Screenshots
    • Description
    • Download/installed size
    • Where the app came from (the discributor)
    • Who produced the app (the developer)
    • Reviews and ratings
    • Licence information, presented in a user-friendly manner
    • Indicate if the app is available in the user's language
  • Allow install/removal
  • Allow application add-on installation/removal

Relevant Art

Mac

https://cdn1.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/slideshow/3543460/raitings-and-reviews-app-store.jpg

iOS

https://media.gcflearnfree.org/content/55e076dd7dd48174331f52a4_01_17_2014/app_store_app.jpg

Google Play Store

http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Google-Play-Store-web-interface-update.png

Discussion

These pages can play a number of roles, depending on the context. This can include:

  • Browsing and evaluating applications for installation.
    • This could simply be identifying the best application in a certain category, it could be finding a particular feature.
  • Reviewing an application that is already installed.
  • Doing something with an app that's already installed - verifying its identity, finding out which version is installed (or has been installed previously), removing it, installing add-ons, getting support from its developer, reporting an issue.

Tentative Design

Page Content

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups-software/master/wireframes/app-details.png

Install/Remove Controls

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups-software/master/wireframes/app-install-remove.png

Comments

Design/Apps/Software/DetailsPages (last edited 2017-09-29 15:25:18 by AllanDay)