Or we can also use docked window for thumbnail bar, so that user can attach it anywhere he/she is comfortable with.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Daniel Wexler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org > > -- Pankaj UG Student *|* Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai, India
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