The CustomsForge Desktop App - How would you like it to look?

[sfix]

Hello guys,

 

If you didn't know already, the CustomsForge team has a desktop application for managing your Rocksmith CDLC being developed quietly in the background.  We have a small team of developers about to get to work on creating it but first we'd like to pitch it to the users of CustomsForge to see how they'd like it to look / function.

 

The initial mockup off the application would include CDLC listing / categorization (with a verbose view of the contents of the CDLC, arrangements, tuning and the like.) with the ability to do some simple in-place modifications on various meta info.

 

The application itself will be tightly integrated with the website and would include notifications of when updates for DLC you own are availabe (don't panic, this doesn't mean you can't use the tool offline!) and also updates for the application itself.

 

We already have a pretty good idea of what features we'd like to deliver to you guys, so I won't reveal too much just yet. However, what we don't have is a UI prototype to base the application on. We have some rough ideas, but we don't know what you guys really want.

 

So, calling all designers and UI/UX enthusiasts, we'd like your advice on how the app should look. You can submit anything you want to this thread related to the GUI, be it a mockup, a link to an example of some fancy UI controls you seen, or a textual description of how you *think* it should look.

 

If more info is needed to come up with an idea, then let me know and I'll add it to the thread. I'll be happy to help.

 

Thanks,

sfix.

 

Note: This is not a feature request thread.

Note 2: Nor is it the official development thread.

[Berneer]

Hi sfix and CF members in general.

 

Sorry I did not have the time to post this earlier, but I've been dreaming of what you are gloriously achieving. Just by your benevolent choice to offer this you and your team of developers are truly great people and whatever you will bring forward will certainly be amazing and a huge time saver!! THANK-YOU!!!

 

So you ask about interface proposals so I propose one here as a smattering of ideas and integration with CF web site, however without knowing what exact features you will be providing it is hard for my screenshot to not be a veiled feature request... :)  I hope you understand.

 

Here goes. Hope this helps. Obviously this has been assembled with little or no knowledge about interfaces and could use considerable polish, but to get my thoughts across I just assembled my ideas in an Excel spreadsheet and made the image below.

 

Here is a Dropbox Link to the PNG picture in case you cannot see what is in this posted image below.

 

 

Dropbox Link

 

Sometimes Dropbox Links don't seem to open so here it is in Mediafire:

Mediafire Link

 

 

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/PostSongManagerInterfaceIdeaonCF_zps5253c10e.png

[v8Tuna]

Cant wait. thank you for the work!!

[momoguitar]

Thanks guys for doing this, I don't post a lot but read everyday. 

 

Would it be possible to get (say) an official torrent every month of the latest builds? that way it's easier to grab.

and/or maybe a usenet file upload? 
Cheers

[rezyuz]

Incase you guys ever want a new UI design, give me a mail and ill see if i can manage something in my agenda. 

 

I normally always fill my free time with random UI redesigns when im off projects.

[monkeyriot]

Is this still being worked on?