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copied!<p>Rather than trying to select <em>one</em> presentation scheme for fitting n levels of informations in a GUI, why not let the user choose the right level of details he/she wants or needs?</p> <h2>Perspectives</h2> <p>Eclipse is one example (not the only one) allowing for the user to <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/articles/using-perspectives/PerspectiveArticle.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">define perspectives</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>Within the workbench the Perspective feature is used to control the visibility of items in the model and the user interface.<br> It controls what you see in the model (which project, folder or files) and what you see in the user interface (which actions or views).<br> These controls make it possible to navigate through and modify the workspace in a way which suits the user task.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/perspectives.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Perspectives</a> can easily be adapted for any kind of hierarchical information display.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/phrqr.jpg" alt="Perspective"></p> <h2>Information filtering per task</h2> <p>Another effective way to display complex informations is to propose an effective filtering mechanism, based on the current task.<br> Each time the user switch to a new task, the various information trees display just the relevant information.</p> <p>See <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>Mylyn</strong></a> for instance:</p> <blockquote> <p>Mylyn makes tasks a first class part of the IDE, integrates rich and offline editing for ALM tools, and monitors your programming activity to create a "task context" that focuses your workspace and automatically links all relevant artifacts to the task-at-hand.<br> This puts the information you need at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing information overload, facilitating multitasking and easing the sharing of expertise.</p> </blockquote> <p>Again, that can be applied to any kind of informations.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uURgR.jpg" alt="http://www.tasktop.com/sites/default/files/images/part1-overview.jpg"></p>

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