Interesting solution, but i definitely don't think this is a good idea for various reasons. Leptest
2009/7/3 Keith Cirkel <[email protected]> > To solve this, I would add buttons to the top, bottom, left and right. The > user navigates a "screen of buttons" and actions the "right" button to move > to the right, rather than moving their "cursor" (potentially infinitely) to > the right. > ---- > Keith Cirkel > > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dnia 2009-07-03, pią o godzinie 10:40 +0200, David McLeod pisze: >> >> --8<-- >> >> > So, what problems do I immediately see? >> > >> > Well, considering that Moovida uses an opacity technique to tell the >> > user that additional things (e.g. bars of a list) can be scrolled to, >> > I am not sure how to do this with an EPG guide like this. If you are >> > a visual person you might understand what I mean. How do I do opacity >> > changes on the 'grey bars' we use when they move to the left of the >> > screen and tuck under the TV station logos? Those bars are going to >> > be different lengths to represent different lengths of the TV >> > shows...then we need to do the same technique for the right of the >> > screen. Instinctively, I know this is going to look visually weird... >> > but maybe, I might be able to solve this in Photoshop or by testing >> > out some 'comps' to get this worked out...so for now I will continue. >> >> The current list modifies opacity of the whole item, right? The whole >> list row / grid cell gets it's opacity reduced. What I would see >> consistent with the rest of Moovida UI is a thin, constant-width opacity >> gradient from top to bottom on both sides of the grid. There's one >> problem with that... AFAIK we can't have opacity masks in current >> pigment... >> >> --8<-- >> >> > Let me explain... (check out the orange arrows on the thumbnail >> > sketch) I go up and down TV stations (imagine there are 100 or so), so >> > that means the up and down buttons are taken... then I go left and >> > right through the 'timeline'... that means the left and right buttons >> > are taken. So, I have a problem now... I can navigate up to those >> > buttons so the user can switch between the views! >> >> We discussed this with Kevin in one of our posts. He proposed that the >> upper buttons could be accessible by going to the far left and left >> again (that is if the farthest left available item is "now"). I don't >> think that's a good idea. I'd rather have the two views separate in the >> menu. Watch TV > it shows you 'now & then', Programme Guide > the full >> fledged guide. >> >> -- >> Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> >> > >
