You see Michael’s admin interface. You see WordPress 2.5 take on an admin interface. You start laughing… Then you realize you will be working with the latter. And you cry.
The above quote is from a commentator called Waldo on Michael Heilmann’s post reveling his work on a potential administration interface for Habari. “Monolith”, as Heilemann calls it, is pretty amazing looking. You can see a Flickr set here. There’s also a full screencast at Michael’s post that does a good job showing the in’s and out’s. I don’t want to prejudge WP 2.5’s admin design but from what I’ve seen at the test site (via Blogging Pro) “Monolith” blows it out of the water.
Michael Heilemann has his second screencast up, this time covering the WordPress “Write Post” section. I actually like the fact that there are different buttons for “save and continue editing” and “save”, but I completely agree with the trashing of the media manager, its awful to use. Also, there is way too much clutter, I don’t use 3/4 of the things on the page. Finally, Habrari looks pretty sweet, very tempting.
Michael Heilemann, in a screencast (a somewhat painful to sit through 30 minutes), takes apart the WordPress dashboard and widget system. Makes some good points, hope Automattic is listening. Supposedly 2.5 has a redesigned dashboard, interesting to see if it addresses any of Heilemann’s concerns.