[Design] Sidebar Collection icon treatments

[Mimi Yin]

The rabbit is neutral territory. Don't want confuse the conversation  
with whether the icon itself is clear or not. ;o)

Re: 2 boxes proposal
My worry is that users won't know to direct their mouse to the  
checkbox / collection area at all and I'm not sure that an icon  
appearing to the right of the collection name would cause users to do  
that. I think we tend to "chase the shiny object" so to speak, so if  
icons appeared to the right of the collection name, that's where I  
would click.

Just to be a total poop, I'm going to pull the trump card of space  
limitations: As you can see, the sharing status lives to the right of  
the collection name and also needs to be clickable when users  
rollover the collection name.

Mimi: See more inline

On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Mimi,
>
> I'm a fan of having specialized icons for collections and collection
> check boxes.  I know many people have expressed reservations about  
> this
> in the past, I've been meaning to voice my "I like it" vote.  It seems
> to me the cost is very low to experiment with lots of different icons,
> lets do it and get lots of user feedback with different icons in play.
>
> Heck, maybe it would be useful to have a Chandler startup option to  
> use
> a different prefix string when looking for icons, so different ideas
> could coexist...

Yup, we could do A-B testing and track interaction, figure out how  
long it takes for people to check the collections.

I think we should also ship with a few collections out of the box,  
some checked and some not checked. The problem with only have 1  
collection is that users click the checkbox and nothing happens.

>
> To help with the problem of new users figuring out there's something
> "separate" from clicking on the row, what if rolling over the row (but
> not the check box) preserved the rabbit, but caused two little boxes,
> one with a check, one without, to appear to its right?  And if you
> rolled over the check box area, what you have for the unchecked  
> rollover
> would appear?
>
> Finally, while I'm a noted fan of rabbits, particularly the dancing
> variety, can you describe your motivation for using a rabbit?  Is  
> it to
> inspire "oh my god, that's so cute it must surely have some purpose"
> feelings?
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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