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Better user interface for [+New Item]

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Todd Chittenden on 23 Jan 2025 21:48:03

When adding any new item to a Fabric Workspace, the user clicks the "New item" button. At first glance, on a moderate resolution monitor, there are three rows of data with three items per row. Items are presented as tiles WITH TONS OF WHITE SPACE. There are 46 items in my view, and that list is probably going to expand over time (like with the addition of current preview items like Org Apps).

This list of items would be easier to consume by the user as a hierarchical list. Keep the groups like you have them now, but under each group can be a grid of the items with the following attributes:

  • The favorite icon
  • The artifact type icon (these two take up very little room
  • The artifact type name (Warehouse, Lakehouse, Report, etc.)
  • A brief description

Seriously, you have to understand how the human brain assimilates written data like this. It is much more efficient for our brains if our eyes can scan ONE VERTICAL LIST than have to scan back and forth across the page like an old-fashioned typewriter.

Yes, I know that you have the "Filter items by type" in the upper right corner but consider this: the user has already moved their hand from the keyboard to the mouse to activate the [+ New Item] button. If you are looking for things not readily available on the first page of data, you have to either search with your eyes (with the inefficient interface you have) or move your hand BACK to the keyboard to start typing. Then back to the mouse to select it.


The process would be so much better if it were one vertical list with all the resource type names aligned.