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CLM 2012 Part 5 – Navigating a More Unified CLM Web

Every release we have the opportunity, and responsibility, to make progress on unifying the Web user interface across integrated Jazz applications. Unifying the UI — or more completely, the user experience — continues to be an important area of focus for the Collaborative Lifecycle Management team because we understand that when you use integrated Jazz […]

Countdown to CLM 2011: Part 6 – Navigation features

As we near June 14th and the 3.0.1 release of the products that comprise our Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution, I have the pleasure of announcing some of the advances we’ve made with the Jazz navigation system that supports the integration of Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer and helps you […]

Loading… Patterns updated in Web UI Pattern & Style Guide

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As we near the end of the release cycle for Jazz Foundation 1.0 and Rational Team Concert 2.0, and close on the heels of these will be Rational Quality Manager 2.0, one of the areas that gets more attention is guideline and pattern documentation. As a design team, we have much to catch up on […]

New family ties for Rational Web products

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You might have noticed a new look to the Rational Team Concert Web UI login screen and banner in recent weeks. These changes are a step toward an updated look for a number of user interface elements that will help to unify the presentation of our Jazz-based Rational web products. As we take steps toward […]

User Interface Q4U: What does your dream home look like?

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When I was young, I used to wile away time dreaming of what my future ideal home would look like and where it would be. It tended to include things like curved floating staircases, open concept rooms, lots of art, and was usually located in some exotic or ultra-cool location on the planet nowhere near […]

Your voice at “VoiCE” on Jazz Foundation Web UI

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This week at the Rational VoiCE of the Client event, a colleague of mine and I will be hosting design feedback sessions on the next rev of the Rational Jazz Foundation Web UI.  If you are planning to be at the event and want to talk Jazz, please stop by the Wakefield Room and sign […]

User Interface Q4U : How do you use the Source Control Flow Editor?

You might be wondering why such silence from the Jazz Team Blog. In addition to enjoying a little down time this summer, the team has been fixing bugs for 1.0.1 and ramping up for our next major release by doing planning and explorations. One of the many areas that is getting attention is the Source […]

The Journey to GA via Downloads

If you have been logging our journey or were along for the ride through the early access program, you will know that our long, and maybe sometimes strange, trip has come to a close: Rational Team Concert 1.0 has arrived and is available on the new Downloads page. The last leg of the trip included […]

Let it shine

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Normally the term “polish” makes me wince a little. For a long time now I have equated that term with the pejorative notion or belief that user interface design, often specifically visual design, is something that you can stick on at the end. However, as the Jazz Project team recently finished Beta 3, its third […]

Refining the Jazz user interface

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Something I’ve learned in working as a user interface (UI) designer on an agile development team, as with the Jazz Project, is that you don’t so much prescribe design as you iterate on it. Ideally you first consider what the viable design options are, and having chosen the best known path, you start with a […]