[Design] [Sum] May 22-28

[Sheila Mooney]

Ok, better late than never...a summary of the discussions from last  
week.

New Design Discussions:

Mimi sent out a proposal for some modifications to the markup bar  
icons. Andi reported some user feedback that it's hard to tell the  
difference between the stamped and active states.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004761.html

Sheila posted the first draft of the stamping spec.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004767.html
There were several comments. Grant requested some clarification of  
all the various states as they relate to the Communcation column.  
Philippe raised some good issues about how shared communications  
could be confusing. Next steps are for Mimi and Sheila to update the  
spec with some clarifications.

Callum Macdonald posted a thread about giving calendars the ability  
to track people and locations, basically giving calendars the  
"smarts" to infer certain information.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004768.html

Sheila posted an update on the Chandler desktop client Alpha3 and  
Alpha4 plans. Alpha3 will be a short release focused on performance.  
Some Alpha4 work, particularly around the dashboard will start now as  
well but won't block Alpha3. A plan specifically for Cosmo Demo and  
the hosted service is forthcoming.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004772.html

Continued Threads:

Discussions continued around the proposal for modifications to the  
preview area. Specifically, we discussed ways to allow users to the  
preview pane to display more events. One proposal was to allow for as  
many events as possible without obscuring anything in the sidebar. We  
could have ellipsis  (...) to show that there are more that aren't  
displayed. Other suggestions were scrollbar or scroll arrows but  
there were concerns about these taking up too much space or that they  
are too hard to manipulate. Mimi proposed that we have "clickable"  
text ie: 2 more events that expands and collapses the preview area.


Other discussions:

Bear sent out a post about Oprius.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004759.html

Priscilla sent out a user write-up on her interview with the Docent  
coordinator at MOMA.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004762.html

Ted sent out a link about a web based tool called Adobe Notetag which  
has a flavor of something stamping like and gtd-ish.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/004774.html


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