Juhan, Thank you for your email. This designer in the house is responsible for that change and has heard you loud and clear :-) I will certainly put the original layout back before officially releasing Timeline again. Or if you or Michael have done that, then you can just send me a patch. (I'm currently pressed to defend my thesis so a patch from you would help a lot.)
Please feel free to do design crit right here on this mailing list. We're always open to suggestions, and others beside me would learn from your critiques. We are not professional visual designers, but we do have skills in visual design and user interface design. As I'm sure you're well aware, designs must be tested against real users to see how they hold up. And in this case, it seems that my new design isn't holding up in some aspects. If you want to collaborate more with us on the coding and design, that is fantastic! We can carry on that conversation off the list. Actually, it's funny that we're not aware how much you make use of our software until we "break" it :-) We would love to hear more about how you're making use of Timeline, etc. Cheers, David Juhan Sonin wrote: > In the latest Timeline code base, the timeline viewer gets a few big UI > tweaks.... and they stink. > > For example: the original viewer cascaded events so reading and understanding > the sequence was straight forward, elegant, and natural. The new viewer slaps > all the points in a single row and the event text callouts are all over the > place, making reading and comprehension much more difficult. > > What gives? Is there a Designer in the house? > > We, the Open Design Group at MITRE, would love to participate in evolving the > code and Design. How about a design crit of the new service? We'll come to > your > office. > > ? > > -Juhan > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
