[General] Call for feedback on Chandler demo movies

[Ted Leung]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> 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 don't feel strongly enough about it to say that it's a show  
stopper, but the order did seem unnatural to me.

>
>> 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.

Yes more real world scenarios, and preferably a single scenario that  
would be common across the various screencasts, each building on the  
others.

>
>>
>> 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!

Voice is not a showstopper, but obviously it would be nice to have it  
in.

>
>> 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.

Yeah that's probably the correct tradeoff.

Ted