On Dec 9, 2007, at 3:04 AM, hank williams wrote:
What I would suggest is that the actual verbs associated with
collections be placed next to the collections. This might be a pop up
menu knob associated with each collection in the sidebar. You click
on
this and get a drop down of sharing and other option like delete,
etc.
The idea is to make it clear that there are things that you can do to
collections, and what they are.
+1
The current design tries to pack too much UI information into too
small a space. The check mark is both more obvious to the user and
much simpler to implement.
The current overlay checkboxes next to the collections are nice, but
they are so cute that they are not obvious. I would suggest a more
traditional looking checkbox i.e. google calendar (though ideally not
as plain looking as gCal). Similarly, for this drop down menu feature,
the idea that there is something clickable has to have incredibly
strong visual cues. As with everything, it needs to be artistic, but
not at all subtle.
If necessary, to support being visually obvious, using slightly more
horizontal or vertical space as the default for collections is not a
bad thing. The standard display today is >1000 pixels, and collections
are the anchor of chandler, so making this area highly attention
getting and obvious in every way would be well worth it.
Oh, and one more thing. The collections area should be labeled above.
If you are going to introduce new nomenclature you need to support it
strongly. Labeling the area is helpful, along with a rollover on the
word that helps explain it. As I see it, you have:
in
out
trash,
show all
(and potentially show items in no collection, though this doesnt
seem possible now)
Then you have a separate area labeled collections and you have your
colored collections, i.e.
COLLECTIONS
fun
work
personal
etc.
Oh, one more thing. I havent said anything positive yet. Here goes.
This software is usable now. It just needs to polish these UI things
and you really have a product. The only bad thing is that people are
now so web focused that chandler hub is going to become the preferred
tool to use and so it needs to be as cool as chandler is. But I am
officially going to try using chandler as a task management tool for
me and my team. We will see how that goes.
Hank
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