Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of UsabilityIssues


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08/10/09 18:00:27 (16 years ago)
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danvisel
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  • UsabilityIssues

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    66== 0. Introduction == 
    77 
    8 This page is to focus on broader areas of Sophie 2 functionality which impact product usability.; this page is purposefully not focused on the level of individual tasks. I've focused on several major sections of Sophie's functionality and added use cases to make it clear how these issues will appear in the real world. A subsection (name TK) discusses how well this works in the current version of Sophie 2 and suggests things that might need to change. 
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     8This page is to focus on broader areas of Sophie 2 functionality which impact product usability; this page is purposefully not focused on the level of individual tasks. I've focused on several major sections of Sophie's functionality and added use cases to make it clear how these issues will appear in the real world.  
    109This page will be expanded as usability testing begins. 
    1110 
    1211== 1. Timelines ==  
     12 
     13Timelines exist, though much functionality (using them in conjunction with links, audio, and video) is currently missing. How timelines work across pages (how a user would construct slideshows) is still a big shadowy. 
    1314 
    1415Importance = high. 
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    1718 
    1819=== 1.1. Time-based media on a page === 
     20 
     21Audio and video can currently be put on a page, but fine controls are still missing. 
    1922 
    2023(usecase: people want to put a video or audio file on a page and have it work without messing with timelines more than they have to.) 
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    2730== 2. Page templates == 
    2831 
    29 Importance = high. 
     32Importance = high. These still don't work in any reasonable way.  
    3033 
    3134Related issues: copying/pasting frames; shared frame/shared content problem.  
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    3841 
    3942== 3. Frames and flows == 
     43 
    4044Importance = high. 
    4145 
    42 This is essentially the problem of basic users wanting to use text that spans pages. 
     46This is essentially the problem of basic users wanting to use text that spans pages. We can currently link text between text frames, but not across pages. 
    4347 
    44 Possibly immense related problem: interaction between flow frames and page templates. 
     48Possibly immense related problems: interaction between frames flowing across pages and page templates; autocreation & autodeletion of pages. 
    4549 
    4650=== Current implementation === 
    4751 
    48 Right now we don't have a way to use flows on the same page or across pages. 
     52Right now we don't have a way to use flows across pages. 
    4953 
    5054=== Use case 1: standard book with single flow frame === 
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    5963== 4. Sophie Server integration == 
    6064Importance = medium. 
     65 
     66There's currently no way to upload a book to Sophie Server from inside of Sophie (or from the web application) which limits its usefulness. 
     67 
    6168== 5. Book templates == 
    6269 
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    7380== 6. Anchoring == 
    7481 
    75 Importance = medium. 
     82Importance = medium. Anchoring is connecting a frame to a flow in text: so if you have Figure 1, you want Figure 1 to be near the place in the text that references Figure 1, even if you insert text before that, moving Figure 1 back a few pages. 
    7683 
    7784=== Current implementation === 
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    8794== 8. Text styles == 
    8895 
    89 (confusion between character & paragraph application.) 
     96Currently: confusion between character & paragraph application. This needs to be separated out; we have no current paragraph or character styles.  
    9097 
    9198== 9. Bug reporting == 
    9299 
    93 (See [wiki:UserBugTracking my user bug tracking page]. Not sure if this should actually go in here; but maybe the part about reporting in the app goes in from a usability standpoint - this is something we should be getting feedback on.) 
     100(See [wiki:UserBugTracking my user bug tracking page]. This is okay now.  
    94101 
    95102== 10. Resource handling == 
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    117124=== Current implementation === 
    118125 
    119 Can ostensibly import embedded book via Insert > Book menu item; this doesn't seem very functional. This is a better way of embedding a book than the old drag method. 
     126Can import embedded book via Insert > Book menu item. This is a better way of embedding a book than the old drag method. 
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    121 Embedded books palette should display embedded books (does it?). 
     128Embedded books palette should display embedded books but does not. 
     129 
     130Embedded books seem like they're going to be very slow for large books. 
    122131 
    123132== 13. Sophie Reader and annotations == 
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    125134=== Current Implementation === 
    126135 
    127 The current state of the reader app is relatively good: it does what it's supposed to. Annotations don't seem to be working yet, or at least I can't get them to work. Sophie Server integration isn't there, nor are comment frames. 
     136The current state of the reader app is relatively good: it does what it's supposed to. Annotations mostly aren't working yet, or at least I can't get them to work. Sophie Server integration is there, but comment frames are not. 
    128137 
    129138== 14. Publishing ==