Wish list - new Label: user experience

[hogi]

☑ NO cool new feature

but: 
☑ could help many Jmp users (!!!)

☑ removes bugs (!!!)

☐ just cosmetics / nice to have

☐ nobody needs it

What inspired this wish list request? 

In the wish list, a user can suggest new features and improvements related to 

• Advanced Statistical Modeling
• Automation and Scripting
• Basic Data Analysis and Modeling
• Consumer and Market Research
• Content Organization
• Data Access
• Data Blending and Cleanup
• Data Exploration and Visualization
• Design of Experiments
• Mass Customization 
• Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning 
• Quality and Process Engineering 
• Sharing and Communicating Results

A long list of all the fields where Jmp is strong.

I miss a Label like User Experience or JMP GUI.

What is the improvement you would like to see? 

In the community, please add a Label User Experience or JMP GUI.

Why is this idea important? 

Besides WHATs, sometimes it's also the HOW that counts. A better HOW can be as important as a new WHAT.

With the new label, one can provide a home for these kinds of topics.

more wishes from 

[hogi]

@Ryan_Gilmore , any chance to add such a label?

[Ryan_Gilmore]

Hi @hogi,

Our systems are aligned around the capabilities of the Analytic Workflow.  The capabilities allow us to view the requests as a collective. Most user experience/UI requests could be categorized into one or more of the capabilities.

So, for now, I'm not inclined to add it but will be mindful of the request. Thanks.

[hogi]

Hm.

In the future, the focus may shift a bit from functionality to user experience:

With the cool new Python integration in Jmp18 by @Paul_Nelson , users no longer have to request features ... and hope 2-3 years that they will get implemented.
They can write their own AddIn to get the functionality from Python - even without a pro version:
Robust-Regression-Using-Regular-JMP-18-version-powered-by-Python 

On the other hand: User Experience
Other tools focus a lot on user experience - with harmonized dialog windows, consistent menus, no "hidden" secrets.
Often almost too much: fancy transitions, user-friendly designs, dashboards with a lot of graphics and little information -- maybe to compensate for a lack of functionality?
To make the user experience of Jmp state of the art, there should be no inconsistencies, no bugs, no unexpected behavior ...

Unexpected? - not only for experienced users, but also for new users right from the start. a more intuitive JMP.

We discussed this yesterday at an internal JMP meeting:
If I have to invest 3-5 hours for every colleague to show him/her the trapdoors in JMP - is this "as designed"?

How cool would it be if there were no trapdoors anymore - or at least: a warning sign in front of each trapdoor - or a nicely visible detour sign.

Where to put the warning and detour signs?
a) Ask some colleagues to create a user experience workstream - and let them find the trapdoors.

b)  Just ask your users! , collect the answers and tag them: user experience

I agree: a special tag?
It is not fancy, it it no a must.

But it could be useful, helpful - and it would not hurt.

[hogi]

e.g.

CSV import force MDY or DMY date format & Date Format Pattern - additional functionality 

Update & Concatenate: source script collision

Find - or not find?

Help me find the right legend entry in Graph Builder! 

X group: restrict the values on the axis to the respective group   

Make decimal separator an option 

[hogi]

Optimize Sharepoint Integration 

[hogi]

option to disable the expiry warning 

[hogi]

The Documentation Library in JMP is very helpful - just open it and search in the huge Knowledge Base ...

User experience: Why should a company hide such a great resource from the users? [JMP18]
-> the hidden secret can be found here: https://www.jmp.com/en_us/support/jmp-documentation.html.

[hogi]

Have data filter selections not clear when you need to enter a new filtering item 
by @shampton82 

[hogi]

Implement all necessary aggregation function in Graph Builder, Summary Statistics, Tabulate and Header Statistics ---  such that users don't have to suffer reinventing the wheel:

Add CDFs to Graph Builder [= close the gap to Minitab]

new JSL function: Col N Categories [JSL is useful, but Col N Categories in Graph Builder Summary statistics will be amazing!]

🙏 is in spec (value) 

[shampton82]

Hey @hogi  and @Ryan_Gilmore  !

I agree that being able to tag something as an improvement to user experience would be useful.  While JMP has so many amazing ways in which it enables users to be efficient I'd say there are at least as many ways that you wish it would do something in a more streamlined way or less frustrating way, especially across platforms.  In fact, most my scripts are trying to improve my user experience vs adding capabilities.

It would be cool to be able to search wish list items by ones related to enhancement of the user experience outside of added capabilities.  So I think a searchable tag would be a great compromise!

Steve