Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of SandBox/deyan/InteractionGraphicsDesign2

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05/13/09 10:54:21 (16 years ago)

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deyan

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+== 1. Aspects of the Sophie UI ==
+=== 1.1. Graphic look & feel (general) ===
+
+I think the graphic look is generally good & we like it. The gray windows and blue details look nice. 
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+=== 1.2. Interactions (general) ===
+
+Basic questions that need to be worked out:
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+ * [dev]How much drag and drop is there in the interface? 
+  * [dev]Can we drag and drop from palettes to HUDs? 
+  * [dev]From HUDs to palettes? 
+  * [dev]From book to book?
+ * [shift][dev]Number of halos on frames: ideally, there would be a balance between easily accessible functionality & less potential for confusion.
+=== 1.3. Common elements ===
  * Flaps
   * For organizing the functionalities, we will use flaps. Flaps are parts of the layout.
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  * Floating dialogues
   * Some functionality in Sophie 2 is going to be in floating dialogue boxes - when the user presses control/command-F, for example, a window will pop up asking what you want to search for, like in other applications. This isn't how this was done in Sophie 1 (that was in the palettes); it would be useful to see how this could look.
+=== 1.2. Specific functionalities ===
  * [shift]Timelines
   * ''Interaction and Graphics Design'' - The way timelines were done in Sophie 1 wasn't wonderful and could probably be reworked. One issue: in Sophie 1, every frame on a page had a timeline halo that was dragged to the timeline to move the frame to the timeline. (The frame itself wasn't dragged because the author presumably had positioned the frame on the page first.) This got the job done but it was confusing: most of the other halos did not behave in this way.
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   * The author application contains reading functionality; the UI of this shouldn't be too different from the authoring UI. The reader application, however, needs to have its UI thought through more carefully: many of the people using Reader won't have used Sophie previously. Because it's their first introduction, it needs to be easy to use; it should also be inviting.
 (If we're planning on having Reader work in a browser as an applet, does all reader functionality need to be confined to a single window?)
+== 2. Schedule ==
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+(This part of the doc lists when things should happens, milestones etc.)
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+=== 2.1. Major Dates ===
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+'''2009-08-14''': This is the first Beta release; most of the UI should be integrated into the product at this point so it can be critiqued.
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+=== 2.2. Minor Dates ===
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+'''2009-05-13''': When the first round of this document will be critiqued by Shift.