Ultan O’Broin If you are looking to build a cloud-friendly tablet user experience, look no further than Oracle’s new simplified UI. Developed with simplicity and cross-platform compatibility in mind, it’s now also a source of inspiration for any IT team looking to build their own tablet UI. Oracle will be making available the user experience design patterns behind the simplified UI, and optimized for ADF.

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2. Introduction to Tablet Design
with ADF and UX
Ultan Ó Broin (@usableapps)
Director
Oracle Applications
User Experience
Simplified UI Guide
March 18, 2014
Nieuwegein, NL

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Simplicity: Complete Applications ROIDEMO
• Simple to use
• Simple to deploy
• Simple to sell
• Simple to build

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UX Build Enablement
100% Oracle ADF-based
Resource Description
Components Based on the Oracle ADF Rich Client User Interface Guidelines,
reusable ADF solutions for structural components of the UI.
Design
patterns
Reusable combinations of components that you can apply to
solve common design problems.
Guidelines Detailed documentation for areas covering broad, flexible usages
in applications.
Templates Coded layouts of ADF components designed for particular user
experience or functional purposes that you can apply, for
example, to the UI Shell.

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Enable a user to view a single
main object or multiple related
objects or tasks.
VIEW PAGES
Enable a user to add or edit a
single main object or multiple
related objects or tasks.
ACTION PAGES
Edit object details
page (with tabs)
Simplified UI Architecture and Page Types
Object overview page Object details page
Edit object details
page (no tabs)
Desktop UI
Landing page
Simplified UI home page
Secondary action page

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Simplified UI Page Type: Landing Page
Decision and Design Elements
Landing Page
without Tabs
Landing Page
with Tabs
Does the user’s work revolve
around a primary object or
business process?
Yes No
Does the user need to
perform small tasks across
multiple related objects or
tasks?
No Yes
Can the information be
logically grouped on one
landing page?
Yes No
Pattern Set Decision Table

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Simplified UI Pattern Set: Add to Table
Decision and Design Components
Pattern Set Decision Table
Add a
New
Object
Inline
Add a
New
Object on
a Separate
Page
Select and
Add an
Existing
Object
Does all of the information that is
required to add a new object fit
within one table row using the
table columns in view?
Yes No No
Does all of the information that is
required to add a new object
result in more attributes than can
appear in one table-column’s
view?
No Yes No
Does the object that you need to
add to your table already exist?
No No Yes
New object inline
Add button

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Simplified UI Component: Tab
Decision and Design Elements
Page tabs on a view page
Career Planning tab
Performance tab
Goals tab
Profile tab
Sales Account team tab
Contacts tab
Opportunities tab
Leads tab

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Simplified UI: Landing Page
af:selectOneChoice
af:commandButton
af:panelGroupLayout
af:table
af:panelStretchLayout
af:outputText/
af:selectOneChoice af:panelGroupLayout
af:panelGroupLayout
af:panelStretchLayout

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Oracle’s User Experience Strategy is About …
Simplicity
Easily access the
essential information
and actions to support
your work.
Mobility
Optimized UIs for
wherever and however
you work.
Extensibility
Tailor the user experience
to best fit your company’s
identity and business
processes.

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