SurveyJS: Improved Form Builder #usability (first half of 2018)
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During the six month since we released production versions of our MIT-Licensed SurveyJS Library and Open Source Form Builder, we’ve learned a lot about how people use our built-in survey editor UI and what leaves them confused. In this article, we’ll summarize the usability issues we’ve encountered and how we solved them.Properties Pane: A Problem with Ready-to-Use SolutionThe first and probably most common usability issue was with the Properties pane on the right-hand side, a sight familiar to all developers and power users:Property GridDevelopers kept asking us about ways to hide this pane, as it didn’t appear helpful to end-users who worked with the Form Builder to construct #surveys.Fortunately, we did foresee such requests and already had user-friendly modal dialogs as ready-to-use (...)