Mimi,
Nice work with the mockups.
Mimi Yin wrote:
I think the 2nd visually overwhelms our otherwise lightweight look and
feel and am recommending that we go with the 1st square color
swatch. The 2nd design would also require us to come up with a separate
'selected' state so that we can differentiate between selected and
unselected calendars without obscuring the color swatch.
Regarding the second design -- I was visualizing something light and
unsaturated for the default, unselected state. With the full-on
saturated colors like that, it is indeed pretty overpowering.
However, even if you were to lighten and destaurate the color, I don't
think it would work as well as the first design. I think the first
design looks really good.
2. However, we're still missing important interaction and visual
feedback to round out this behavior.
+ We're not displaying the selected calendar on top of all other
overlayed calendars
+ When an user selects an event in the calendar, we're not automatically
switching the selection in the sidebar to match the event
+ We're not visually differentiating between the selected calendar from
other overlayed calendars.
I've actually implemented the first two of these three items.
The third might take a bit of work, although I was thinking that
translucency might be a nice effect to use instead of a color change.
Thoughts?
What's left ...
+ Calendar colors between Hub and Desktop will not match
I'd like to bump this one up in priority -- it was even confusing me
while I was working on the feature. It's going to drive users crazy.
A few other things ...
1. I noticed that name changes to a collection both in the Web UI and in
the Desktop client seem not to be included in sync. This is going to
confuse people in a big way too, I think.
2. Are we okay with the Remove feature in the UI simply removing the
item from the currently selected collection? We have no concept of
'delete' currently in the Web UI.
3. The collection selector is currently a fixed height, not resizable
like it is in Desktop.
That's all I can think of for now. Unless someone has some feedback to
the contrary, I'll start working on the collection selector using the
first design as my template. Mimi, can you update the image grid graphic
and JSON file with a (transparent) PNG of the "i" graphic and its
size/position?
Thanks.
Matthew
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