Hi,

> > 3. Implement A B C D E F G... for recordings list
> >
> > Don't like it much as it clutters things up.  Prefer that people
> > just search.
> I'd like to answer 2. & 3. together: Just imagine that A B C... would
> be 15/01/12 22/01/12 29/01/12 instead if you sorted the recordings by
> date. The scale would be adopted to the available space and the time
> you are running your Matterhorn server already.  Additional we might
> add a date-picker here too. This would simply replace the paging by
> something more meaningfull. I can never remember in our current
> installation if the recordings from last september are on page 21 or
> 35. If you jumped to last december you can scroll up and down and the
> continuous scrolling will automatically reload the new data.

I'd be open to this method I think.

> And navigation by searching just works if you know what you are 
> searching for. The navigation with the letters works better for
> browsing through the content.

Right, what I really want is "temporal browsing", and our current UI
supports that "kind of", and I find myself doing it lots so I wouldn't
like to lose it.

> > Outside of the scope of what you are providing, but this would
> > allow us to both have a consistent and cohesive delivered project
> > yet limit the amount of custom coding that needs to be done to make
> > the UI customized.
> It's outside scope for us, but feel free to contribute this. And if
> we start it here we probably should incorporate such a templating
> anywhere in the system.

I think so too.  We're pretty focused for the next six months on
analytics issues, but hopefully after that there will be some
opportunity to contribute to the general UIs.

> This is not a mockup for the embed-player. We would not touch it and 
> keep it as it is currently.

Does the mock up change the underlying player at all (SWF)?

> currently no sorting for episodes in the rest interfaces) and the top
> information menu will make it into 1.4. I don't know how far we will
> get with the accordeon below the player. And we will keep the tools
> area on the left for 1.5, so there should be enough time to test this
> concept.

Great.  In principle I'm on board with this, specifics to be discussed
after they go in.

> > - If you have a deployed prototype, I can see about getting some
> >    usability testing done here, maybe Judy can as well?  We could at
> >    least do some less formal usability testing (think aloud, etc.).
> We have not prototype we would like to discuss this first, before we 
> would spent our time on this.

I'm fine with just testing a certain rev number too, from a branch or
wherever it is being developed.

> system. The colors we introduced are variations of the already used
> colors. In our point of view these colors hamonize quite well and
> they are not as saturated as the red, orange, blue-green and black
> that we currently use to make the controls and the matterhorn
> appearance more decent and let the content be more in the focus.

I've got some light colour blindness and really don't care much about
colours, but I just want to make sure things are as harmonious as
possible (and with our website).  I like the idea of coming up with
some CSS files to skin things, and we can always just go back to the
current ones if we can't find agreement...

Chris
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Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc
ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan

Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938
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