Like Katie, I certainly don't think we should be constrained by the
desktop and prevented from exploring alternatives for the Hub UI.
That being said, it seems to me like we are getting into a debate
about the design details which clearly demonstrates what we are
worried about. As much as we would like to be able to take this
design as is and assume there are no issues and no discussions to be
had, we have seen many times before that when you go to implement
something, this stuff just surfaces. These things take time to
resolve and bandwidth for discussions that isn't going into something
else. My view is purely from a risks and schedule perspective. We
could very well move forward with a new design and resolve any issues
really quickly but this is unknown. Sure, the desktop detail view
design doesn't translate perfectly to the web but we know what those
problems are and we can just choose to live with them for now.
Remember it's Preview not 1.0. It's about getting something out there
even if we realize there are problems and limitations. We have
certainly compromised in many areas of the design, not just the
detail view. There is nothing to say that we won't revisit many UI
issues on BOTH the desktop and web post-Preview. I believe this is
part of what we are trying to accomplish with getting out an initial
version in the first place.
Cheers,
Sheila
On May 7, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
I'm worried, though, that part of the stamping concept that I really
like might be lost. In the "traditional" UI, all the stamps are
always
visible in a central location, so at a glance I can find out what
semantics I've associated with the current item. With this accordion
rendering of stamps, the sense of what your stamping options are is
dramatically improved, but which stamps are chosen is harder to
coalesce. On small screens some stamps may even be out of view.
I think this is a really good point.
I think it might be good to have a bunch of small icons for each
stamp somewhere that is always viewable, either at the top of the
detail view or somewhere else in the ui and clicking on one of
those stamps would jump you to that stamp expansion in the detail
view.
This sounds like a nice 0.8 feature tho. IMHO, in our current
"let's get this out and done" state of mind I think losing the "all
stamps are visible" feature is a good trade off for having better
support for smaller window sizes. If we follow the old plan of
record stamps become so painful that it's almost unusable at
smaller window sizes, and I think that is a larger barrier to
people understanding and using stamps than having them always visible.
-Mikeal
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