If you’ve been watching twitter over the past few days you will have noticed a flurry of user interface related changes making their way into the most recent Cashboard build.

Here’s a summary of what we’ve been doing.

Navigation refinement

The old navigation scheme used to present options such as Tasks, Details, and Invoices above the project name. This was causing confusion among some of our customers, and really wasn’t the best way to visualize the association between those links and the header at all.

We’ve moved those options down below the header to accurately show that those items belong to the project you’re viewing.

You’ll also notice we’ve added summary boxes to the top of each estimate and project screen. This information exists in the table footers of each screen, but now you can quickly view important financial information without scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Interface standardization

Cashboard has grown organically, and we haven’t been paying the best attention to all of our user interface elements.

With that in mind, we’ve done a sweep across many screens in the application – paying special attention to how items are created.

The estimate screen used to force new item creation into a slow loading modal dialog. We’ve streamlined adding estimate items with a quick in-page form, just like the rest of our application.

You’ll also notice that buttons to act on items within tables have been cleanly placed above their respective tables.

We believe this cleans up some of the dirt that was starting to make its way into the application and hope you agree. As always – comments, questions, and feedback are warmly welcomed.