It might be worth doing a UI mockup, with a visualization of the result and a description of the user's actions, that walks through exactly what the thumbnail view will look like, and a clear example of exactly how it will be used (each mouse click and its visual result) demonstrating what new task will be easily accomplished. We do these mockups for all UI design on our real app development, and, with practice, they can be done reasonably quickly (a day or two) in an image editor, like Gimp or Photoshop, or, even better, with animations in a tool like AfterFX. We typically budget about a third of our development time to mockups, which allow us to quickly iterate through the design choices and suss out potential problems long before we get into implementation. In addition to effectively communicating the ideas to the entire team, coding becomes much quicker using the mockup as a template and avoiding the tendency to accrete functionality, resulting in a more coherent and elegant design and implementation.
Here are some of the mockups we did for the mobile app we're currently working on, Glaze, an app that turns photos into paintings using a novel genetic search algorithm (apologies, these are huge files, since we don't make any attempt to optimize and prefer to see pixel-accurate images): http://the11ers.com/Glaze/glaze-filmstrip-storyboard.pdf (17MB) http://the11ers.com/Glaze/GlazeMockupV3.1.mov (11MB) http://the11ers.com/Glaze/GlazeMockupV3.5.mov (45MB) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Deepak Gopinath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Larry, > With regard to your question on why only 'bottom' pane and not a > 'side' pane, I feel bottom pane seems to be the logical choice as in > most cases, we will be able to show more thumbnails due to the > rectangular layout of the window. Also, users visualize the image > stack as images being placed horizontally next to each other (for > example, previous image is represented by < , and next image by > ). > Hence horizontal orientation of the pane suits better. Hope you got my > reasoning. > > -- > Regards, > Deepak Gopinath > Undergraduate student, Department of Computer Science. > Birla Institute of Technology and Science > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org >
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