Hi Florian, That's a very fair critique and so don't be "sorry to nag" :-) It's only through feedback from real users that we would know how to improve our tools. We have heard feedback mainly on Timeline and Exhibit, and we're sad we're not getting enough feedback on our other tools, such as Longwell and Piggy Bank.
Florian Fangohr wrote: > In exhibit's case, it would make a lot of sense to have one call out > to the mechanism to get 'behind the curtain' at the bottom of the page > for instance. To get there one user group clearly demonstrated that > they were interested enough to scroll all the way down (or the > opposite, they didn't find what they were looking for, but that group > of users is likely to leave the page anyway and if your labels are > clear they won't click). So I would assume that at the bottom of the > page you are speaking to the right people. I like this idea. What I need to figure out is how to make it opt in. Exhibit 2.0 will allow very flexible layouts, meaning that your page can contain several views of several collections. For instance, a home page might show the 5 most recently published papers on the top, a list of 10 most recently read books on the right, and a thumbnail view of 50 sketches in the middle (because the author has interest in sketching), and a few facets on top of the thumbnails. So we have 3 distinct collections, each of which can be copied off. Individual items can also be copied off. Right now, when you hover over any of the 3 collection views, you get the scissors in its own upper right corner and that lets you copy off that collection. But the scissors have been removed for individual items. Can you imagine in your mind to see if those 3 pairs of scissors are still annoying? If not, we can use them as a means to turn on an interface for copying off individual items. Or as you suggested, we can have something at the bottom of each collection view--perhaps a tiny toolbox/hammer+screwdriver icon. And of course, the drop down menus will have to be improved to be less mysterious :-) You said "Copy All" wasn't so clear. So I'm leaning toward "Export Data". What do you think? (The scissors, by the way, were stolen from the Live Clipboard folks.) David _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
