Hi Philippe,
Thanks for your questions: see answers below...
On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
- Like the "tongue" better than the "squared" ones
- What about the unselected collection? Is that just the colored
(blue) background being absent?
The highlight is absent because the user hasn't rolled over the
collection - row AND the collection - row is not selected.
- Is the color of the icon/tongue fixed (i.e. blue) or is it
supposed to match the system highlight color? (e.g. on my machine,
it's orange because that's what I've chosen in the system prefs)
The tongue color matches the color of the calendar. (I chose blue to
make sure it would work with a blue selection highlight color, which
is the out of the box default.)
The same goes for the "highlight" color (bottom-right set). The
collection - rows aren't selected, but when you rollover or mousedown
on the collection icon, the entire row is highlighted with a color
that matches the calendar color.
Cheers,
- Philippe
Mimi Yin wrote:
I have put together 2 treatments of icons for the Sidebar
collection icons. The goal is to plop them into 2 different builds
and test them with users.
+ On top is a rounded "tongue" that slides out upon rollover.
+ Below is a highlight treatment which creates a "checkbox" area
on the left and highlights the entire row with the "color of the
calendar".
On the left: the collection - row is selected (with or without
focus, the collection icon will look the same).
On the right: the collection - row is not selected.
Issues that needed to be addressed:
+ Need a way to display collection-specific icons, so that users
can differentiate between People-based, Project-based, Date-based
collections, just to name a few.
+ Rollover effect is too subtle and some users I tested didn't
notice it or understand it to be "separate" from clicking on the row
+ Need to tie the various states together (Un-checked, Rollover,
Checked, etc) better, so that they're clearly related.
Mimi
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