[General] Call for feedback on Chandler demo movies

[Mimi Yin]

I'm composing a separate email to try and capture the main points and  
provide an update, but going to address a few of Ted's issues here:

On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

>
> I understand the rationale for putting the navigation stuff first,  
> but it didn't seem to work well for me.  I was wondering if doing  
> Smorgasbord or Stamping first might be clearer.

I'm concerned that Smorgasbord and Stamping don't provide enough  
context for the overall structure of the App. Navigation sets up the  
canvas to explain the scope of Chandler: Mail, Tasks and  
Calendar...and it's basic organizational affordance: Collections.

But again, I'm uncertain of the order too. So I'm open to trying  
different orders if you and others feeling strongly about it.

> I think that the screencasts would be much stronger if there was a  
> little more of a scenario that showed how the various features of  
> Chandler are used.   I recognize that this would require a bunch  
> more work, and that there might not be time to do it.

More scenarios like the Schedule a Task and Invite helpers? Basically  
more real-world scenarios? I think that'd be a good premise for a  
second round of screencasts.

>
> I'm assuming that the voiceover for the Sharing movie is on the way.

I am hoping to get to adding voice to the Sharing-Hub screencast, but  
that may not happen before Preview launch as I am away on vacation  
next week. I chose that one to re-do with voice last because I think  
of all the concepts, it's the easiest to understand!

> As far as the production values go, the background audio in  
> Navigation was pretty distracting - you don't have to do music, but  
> reducing the noise somehow would help.   In both Smorgasbord and  
> Triage,  some of the pauses seem a bit too long to me.

Yup. It's hard to get the timing right. I opted to err on the side of  
too slow rather than too fast, which is the feedback I got after an  
initial round of showing the demos to non-OSAF folks. We can improve  
this with fine-tuning but given the limitations of the tool I'm using  
and time, I don't think I'll get to it for Preview.

Thx Ted.

> Ted
>
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:36 PM, D John Anderson wrote: