I agree, waiting to see what Lion is like before we finalize any changes is probably the best way to approach this. That said, should I still post mockups here for feedback? I've been looking at the iPad to try and get a jump on what Lion will bring, and seeing where some of these ideas could possibly be incorporated into Adium; getting some early feedback on them, regardless of the information we have on Lion, would help ensure that their execution is the best we can possibly do.
Speaking of feedback, I like Jordan's suggestion for handling the character count bubbles outside of Twitter; he's right, they could get a little annoying if they were always shown. George Lambrou On Nov 24, 10, at 9.23 pm, Jordan wrote: > I agree with Stephen, we should definitely see if it still fits in > with Lion, although I doubt the UI changes will be so drastic so as to > make all existing software for OS X feel like it doesn't fit. This is > what would need to happen for George's UI suggestions above to not > 'fit' with Lion. > > I love this UI refresh from George - it's definitely got that fresh > new look that tons of software projects have been sporting with their > bigger updates that Adium hasn't really done in many years. (Panic's > Unison, Evernote, Skype Beta, etc.) > > The only part I'm not sold on is the character count bubbles. I think > these are excellent for services like Twitter where watching your > characters is an important part of the tweeting process. When writing > IMs I don't believe this is nearly as important. If it were to be > implemented for all services, I would suggest only showing the > indicators when you draw near the limit, otherwise they may be felt as > intrusive. > > Cheers, > > Jordan > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Stephen Holt <stephen.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Might we want to wait and see what, if any, UI updates are coming with 10.7 >> before we expend a lot of effort updating our UI look and feel? >> I agree it needs an update, but it'd be nice to get a closer (as in: hands >> on) look of where the OS is going with UX and visual style. >> Just my 2ยข. >> -- >> Steve Holt >> On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:40 PM, George Lambrou wrote: >> >> <clipped> >
