I mean you missed off one label (TMI)

Howard

On 11 Apr 2013, at 08:31, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> I quite like 3 (you missed off one slider). I always use it landscape as my 
> screen is wider and if I stretch it full width I get a great granularity. 
> 
> However in 3 you still use up UI because the bars are not hiding but 
> collapsing the sliders. Plus it doesn't take long to know just by looking 
> that a set of sliders are RGB or HSV
> 
> From a UI design IMHO by adding a divider between the colour wheel and the 
> sliders you are breaking the connection between the colour wheel and the 
> sliders. Though subtle isn't an improvement to me. 
> 
> Howard
> 
> On 11 Apr 2013, at 04:56, Martin Constabe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Whoops. Pallete_03.png should have looked like this…
>> 
>> 
>> <pallete_03.png>
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Martin Constabe wrote:
>> 
>>> I am now in front of my Nuke and playing with the color picker. I think 
>>> that a lot of the issues that I raised could be dealt with by slightly 
>>> expanded minimum spacing values. I often see student staring at the pallet 
>>> in the attached configuration (pallet_01.png). The bars are far too close 
>>> for comfort. In pallet_02.png all I have done is to expand the pallet a bit 
>>> and, in photoshop, shrink the color wheel a bit. This I feel is easier to 
>>> read. 
>>> 
>>> I can not find the student's work on this topic. But one thing that I 
>>> recall as being a sensible idea was to reconfigure the color space buttons 
>>> in the manner show in pallet_03.png. This is observant of the simple 
>>> principle: that buttons and their associated actions should be visually 
>>> related. I also moved the before / after sample swatch to a more agreeable 
>>> position and sightly increased the spacing on the top bar to accommodate a 
>>> larger swatch. This is to reflect its importance. I also added a divider 
>>> line between the wheel and the rest of the pallet. 
>>> 
>>> These are not behavior changes so much as readability changes.  
>>> 
>>> Personally I am a big fan of MODOS's interface. They have done an excellent 
>>> job of maintaining consistency and usability. However, I am a bigger fan of 
>>> Nuke's nimbleness (MODO can be a tad sticky sometimes). 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <pallete_03.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <pallet_01.png><Pallet_02.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Howard Jones wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Glad you said that. I find it really good so I'd be interested in what the 
>>>> too many cooks bit is. 
>>>> Only thing I'd like is save able pallettes and then only once in a blue 
>>>> moon. 
>>>> 
>>>> But if there's something better I'm all ears. (We are talking about the 
>>>> colour wheel slider thingy aren't we?)
>>>> 
>>>> Howard
>>>> 
>>>> On 10 Apr 2013, at 14:37, "Diogo Girondi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I too would love to see what would you consider the ideal color picker 
>>>>> palette.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Last time it changed it was for the worse and they end up rolling it back 
>>>>> to its original design. I remember giving a few stabs my self at that 
>>>>> time and all I could do was to make it a bit fancier/prettier. 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Ean Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Martin, how would you prefer it then? IMO, the color picker hasn't 
>>>>> changed much over the years because it functions like the majority of 
>>>>> users want it to, me included. But I'm all ears if you can dream up 
>>>>> something better :) -Ean
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Martin Constabe <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> When I teach interface design I show them Nuke's color picker pallet as 
>>>>> an example of 'too many cooks spoil the broth'.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Rich T wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> > [quote="Elias"]Just resize the window and you'll get the other layout
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks Elias, that was easy
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Rich
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Richard Turner
>>>>> > Digital Media
>>>>> > Central Institute of Technology
>>>>> > Perth. WA
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