[Design] FLOSS usability sprint report
Mikeal Rogers
mikeal at osafoundation.org
Thu Nov 8 11:21:53 PST 2007
> Matthew focused in on a few of these designs, and did a series of
> Javascript prototypes:
>
> The current behavior: http://www.fleegix.org/demo/floss_usability_2007/proto_0.html
> Alternate layout: http://www.fleegix.org/demo/floss_usability_2007/proto_1.html
> - Checkboxes on right, so they're less prominent
> - Disabled checkbox when collection is selected
> - Added "Active: Some collection"
> Another layout: http://www.fleegix.org/demo/floss_usability_2007/proto_2.html
> - Keep "Active: Some collection"
> - Use eye to display overlaid state
> - Distinguish between always overlaid (black eye) and overlaid-
> because-selected (eye with colored background)
> - Allow overlay to toggle even when the collection's selected
I think proto 2 works the best. +1
When i was watching the demo today I was thinking of something
different and I thought i would throw it out there.
I was thinking about what i would be like to actually flip the current
UI. So the checkboxes would become a radio button where only one could
be selected and highlighting the collection name would would select
and deselect it from the overlay.
I know this a departure from what other UIs have been doing for
overlays this is just what seemed intuitive to me.
-Mikeal
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