We are planning to do some user testing in the next iteration. I think we can get some good feedback about this. If it's not a lot of work, perhaps we could even test a few users with both (or even all three) options. It will be important to test this with less technically-savvy users since window management may be more challenging for them.
-Daphne On May 30, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Eli Cochran wrote: > My understanding was that both would come up at the same time, not > that the OS dialog would come up before the Uploader dialog. > > I don't find it confusing to have both open at the same time. In fact > once you are familiar with how the Uploader works, it seems that it > makes more sense to have the both dialogs open as the OS File browser > should be seen as an extension of the Uploader dialog. > > - Eli > > > > On May 30, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Erin Yu wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A quick note on the Uploader behaviour: >> >> We (Eli, Daphne, and I) decided that when the user click on [Add >> files] button from the current context, the OS file system pops up >> right away, so the user can select the files right away rather than >> clicking on the [Browse files] button again. >> >> Currently, when the user clicks on [Add files], both the upload >> dialog >> and the OS file system pop-up are shown (the OS dialog on top of the >> upload dialog). This is confusing to the users, because they can see >> there is something underneath the OS dialog, but they can't get to >> it. >> The correct behavior would be to only show the OS dialog first when >> they press [Add files], then show the upload dialog with the selected >> files. >> >> With the code-freeze just minutes away, we will go with popping the >> upload dialog upon [Add files] press, and having the user click on >> [Browse files] to see the OS dialog - for this release. I'll enter a >> bug for the next release. >> >> Thanks! >> Erin >> _______________________________________________ >> fluid-work mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . > > Eli Cochran > user interaction developer > ETS, UC Berkeley > > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list > [email protected] > http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work Daphne Ogle Senior Interaction Designer University of California, Berkeley Educational Technology Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell (510)847-0308 _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
