Hey guys, Thanks for your feedback. I'll try to address some of it.
Colin: > When doing any sort of redesign, it's really important to write out your > goals -- what specifically about the old design that you find problematic, > what you hope to achieve with the new design, etc. I think writing that out > would be really helpful here, since it seems people are pretty confused about > this redesign. At the moment, there is too much space wasted for too little information, in my opinion. Furthermore, you have to make needlessly much clicks to change between the settings of one account to the settings of another account. So my goal is first, to improve information/screen space ratio and second, to make things more accessible. This is done by adding the preferences right next to the accounts view. Like this you see a lot more information in one screen and can change to preferences of another account with only one click. Zachary: > I would prefer the context menus not get removed from the context menu, if > only because it's the easiest place to set multiple account's statuses > simultaneously (right click 2 of them, set as away, etc), among other things. > However, I only have a few concerns for the design: > How about throwing a checkbox in the left-hand side of the account list? It > would eliminate the only 'regression' I can see for the new design, which is > quickly enabling or disabling accounts. > The width of preference panes will be more trim, which could reduce how > useful some of the preferences are. I don't think this will be a huge problem > though. It was in no means intended to remove the context menus. I just didn't know they were that "advanced". I'll re-add them and think about those checkboxes in my next mockup. David: > What would be really cool is figuring out how to use the new Mail, Contacts & > Calendars prefpane in Lion for this :) I don't really see how that would benefit users. Maybe I just don't really get the idea, could you maybe explain a bit more what you exactly want to do? Regards, Patrick
