The rabbit is neutral territory. Don't want confuse the conversation
with whether the icon itself is clear or not. ;o)
Re: 2 boxes proposal
My worry is that users won't know to direct their mouse to the
checkbox / collection area at all and I'm not sure that an icon
appearing to the right of the collection name would cause users to do
that. I think we tend to "chase the shiny object" so to speak, so if
icons appeared to the right of the collection name, that's where I
would click.
Just to be a total poop, I'm going to pull the trump card of space
limitations: As you can see, the sharing status lives to the right of
the collection name and also needs to be clickable when users
rollover the collection name.
Mimi: See more inline
On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
Hi Mimi,
I'm a fan of having specialized icons for collections and collection
check boxes. I know many people have expressed reservations about
this
in the past, I've been meaning to voice my "I like it" vote. It seems
to me the cost is very low to experiment with lots of different icons,
lets do it and get lots of user feedback with different icons in play.
Heck, maybe it would be useful to have a Chandler startup option to
use
a different prefix string when looking for icons, so different ideas
could coexist...
Yup, we could do A-B testing and track interaction, figure out how
long it takes for people to check the collections.
I think we should also ship with a few collections out of the box,
some checked and some not checked. The problem with only have 1
collection is that users click the checkbox and nothing happens.
To help with the problem of new users figuring out there's something
"separate" from clicking on the row, what if rolling over the row (but
not the check box) preserved the rabbit, but caused two little boxes,
one with a check, one without, to appear to its right? And if you
rolled over the check box area, what you have for the unchecked
rollover
would appear?
Finally, while I'm a noted fan of rabbits, particularly the dancing
variety, can you describe your motivation for using a rabbit? Is
it to
inspire "oh my god, that's so cute it must surely have some purpose"
feelings?
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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