[Design] Sidebar Collection icon treatments

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

- Like the "tongue" better than the "squared" ones
- What about the unselected collection? Is that just the colored (blue) 
background being absent?
- Is the color of the icon/tongue fixed (i.e. blue) or is it supposed to 
match the system highlight color? (e.g. on my machine, it's orange 
because that's what I've chosen in the system prefs)

Cheers,
- Philippe

Mimi Yin wrote:
> I have put together 2 treatments of icons for the Sidebar collection 
> icons. The goal is to plop them into 2 different builds and test them 
> with users.
>
> + On top is a rounded "tongue" that slides out upon rollover.
>
> + Below is a highlight treatment which creates a "checkbox" area on 
> the left and highlights the entire row with the "color of the calendar".
>
> On the left: the collection - row is selected (with or without focus, 
> the collection icon will look the same).
> On the right: the collection - row is not selected.
>
> Issues that needed to be addressed:
> + Need a way to display collection-specific icons, so that users can 
> differentiate between People-based, Project-based, Date-based 
> collections, just to name a few.
>
> + Rollover effect is too subtle and some users I tested didn't notice 
> it or understand it to be "separate" from clicking on the row
>
> + Need to tie the various states together (Un-checked, Rollover, 
> Checked, etc) better, so that they're clearly related.
>
> Mimi
>
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