[Design] Design Session on Use cases for Sections

[Mimi Yin]

I have finally written up the notes from our Sections and Partitions  
Design Session:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/SectionsAndPartitions

Please feel free to add comments to the page. The next action I think  
is to figure out how many of these use cases we need to support based  
on:

1. Usability feedback from testing Basic Dashboard in the earlier  
phases of 0.7 AND
2. Product roadmap for 1.0

Mimi

On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> In the spirit of getting more specific with design planning in 0.7,  
> I'm proposing we nail down all the various "sectioning" proposals  
> and use cases that have been floating around the design list for  
> the past month.
>
> A summary of the design list discussions is available at: http:// 
> wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/SectionsUsageScenarios
>
> 2 main questions to address are:
>
> 1. Use cases for sections. What are some specific scenarios for:
> + Comparing two lists
> + Partitioning a view based on an attribute
> + Partitioning a view based on user-defined sections
>
> How common are these usage scenarios?
>
> 2. What are different UI solutions for each of these usage scenarios?
> + Different ways to activate sections
> + Different ways to define new ones
> + The relationship between sections, collections in the sidebar and  
> attributes on an item
>
> Mimi :o)
>
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