[Design] [cosmo] [proposal] Detail View

[Sheila Mooney]

Like Katie, I certainly don't think we should be constrained by the  
desktop and prevented from exploring alternatives for the Hub UI.

That being said, it seems to me like we are getting into a debate  
about the design details which clearly demonstrates what we are  
worried about. As much as we would like to be able to take this  
design as is and assume there are no issues and no discussions to be  
had, we have seen many times before that when you go to implement  
something, this stuff just surfaces. These things take time to  
resolve and bandwidth for discussions that isn't going into something  
else. My view is purely from a risks and schedule perspective. We  
could very well move forward with a new design and resolve any issues  
really quickly but this is unknown. Sure, the desktop detail view  
design doesn't translate perfectly to the web but we know what those  
problems are and we can just choose to live with them for now.

Remember it's Preview not 1.0. It's about getting something out there  
even if we realize there are problems and limitations. We have  
certainly compromised in many areas of the design, not just the  
detail view. There is nothing to say that we won't revisit many UI  
issues on BOTH the desktop and web post-Preview. I believe this is  
part of what we are trying to accomplish with getting out an initial  
version in the first place.

Cheers,
Sheila

On May 7, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

>>
>> I'm worried, though, that part of the stamping concept that I really
>> like might be lost.  In the "traditional" UI, all the stamps are  
>> always
>> visible in a central location, so at a glance I can find out what
>> semantics I've associated with the current item.  With this accordion
>> rendering of stamps, the sense of what your stamping options are is
>> dramatically improved, but which stamps are chosen is harder to
>> coalesce.  On small screens some stamps may even be out of view.
>
> I think this is a really good point.
>
> I think it might be good to have a bunch of small icons for each  
> stamp somewhere that is always viewable, either at the top of the  
> detail view or somewhere else in the ui and clicking on one of  
> those stamps would jump you to that stamp expansion in the detail  
> view.
>
> This sounds like a nice 0.8 feature tho. IMHO, in our current  
> "let's get this out and done" state of mind I think losing the "all  
> stamps are visible" feature is a good trade off for having better  
> support for smaller window sizes. If we follow the old plan of  
> record stamps become so painful that it's almost unusable at  
> smaller window sizes, and I think that is a larger barrier to  
> people understanding and using stamps than having them always visible.
>
> -Mikeal
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