Being a Sketch user since it's early days, I found Figma looked really promising, when it finally appeared. While Sketch caught up on most of Figma's features, like collaboration, developer handoff...
Leveraging component variants in Figma for UI Design
Being a Sketch user since it's early days, I found Figma looked really promising, when it finally appeared. While Sketch caught up on most of Figma's features, like collaboration, developer handoff...
Less is more … or more is more? Decide for yourself with Icinga DB Web list view modes
With Icinga DB Web you can now customise Icinga Web's list views to your needs. While in one scenario you might be more interested to see as many objects as possible at a glance, in another scenario detail attributes of only a few objects will be more important to...
Use actual data in Sketch for more realistic mockups
This time I want to show a feature that's not obvious at first sight, but can save a lot of time, when you're intending to create UI mockups with realistic data. Why it is important to test UI concepts with realistic data at a certain point In my opinion it's totally...
Using Sketch Symbols to boost the UI mock up workflow 🚀
As you may have noticed in one of my last posts, I’m not super averse to using Sketch in my daily workflow. Still, for creating UI mock ups, both high low quality, Sketch is the graphics tool, that I feel most comfortable in, because it enables me to work and ideate...
Polishing the Icinga DB Web User Interface
When redesigning the new Icinga DB Web interface elements we already started establishing consistent design elements. This is even more supported by developing the Icinga PHP Library (IPL) from the ground up. IPL makes developing reusable widgets a lot easier for...
It’s all about the tools, is it?
User Interface design or product design in general is less about tools than it is to have a proper understanding about the product you work on. And besides understanding, how the user is going to use your product, recognizing patterns and underlying relationships...
How downtimes are displayed in Icinga DB Web
With the development of Icinga DB we not only rebuilt the core of how Icinga stores and reads monitoring data. With a complete rebuild of the monitoring module we took the chance and refined most aspects of the user interface as well. One aspect that got attention is...
Introducing the redesigned Check Statistics widget
Those of you, who’ve already tried out the Web Interface for Icinga DB might have noticed the redesigned layout of the check execution statistics section in a monitoring object’s detail view. For all the others: Learn about it in this post. On first hand we wanted to...
How we use the powerful new Icinga PHP Library to build the Icinga DB Web UI
When building Icinga DB Web we completely rewrote the basic Icinga Web UI. The "monitoring module", which it was called before. While this existed for some time and the and the underlying concepts were already used in the Icinga Director, we took the chance and...
Icinga Camp Berlin 2019
On March 14 more than 150 monitoring maniacs found their way to Kalkscheune. For another year the location was the venue for Icinga Camp Berlin. Among those maniacs were many well-known faces, but also surprisingly many new ones. A lot of talks and discussions and...
Icinga Web 2 v2.3.1 hotfix release
We've found a problem with PostgreSQL queries in our v2.3.0 release on Thursday. This resulted in an error in Icinga Web 2 (see bug notes), when clicking host names or service names in any list view. The problem was caused by how PostgreSQL handles GROUPBY clauses...
Icinga Web 2 v2.3.0 released
We’re happy to announce version 2.3.0 in our spring release for Icinga Web 2. In addition to several bug fixes we put emphasis on general stability improvements. We also further developed screen reader support and improved readability for some elements in our high...
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