Hi Georgi,
I'm glad you like it! And I'm glad you said what you didn't like about
it :-) Indeed, initially, the facets and the connections were not
separated. Then, from user feedback, I split them apart, making those
two conceptually different features independent and visually separate.
So if I had it my way, they would be together; but by listening to other
people, they are now separate. Who knows, by listening to even more
people, I might put them back together again. :-)
Which is to say that I'm really not committed to any particular UI
design. And it's not accurate to say that I don't believe in the
usability of bidirectional filtering. I do recognize the desire for
that, but I just didn't think I had the right UI design for it at the
time, and even now. So I chose not to support bidirectional filtering in
Parallax, at least until I figure out a UI solution that I'm comfortable
with. But you might as well beat me to it :-) And that's great, too! The
more experimentation, the better! Looking forward to see what you come
up with!
Cheers!
David
Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
Hi David,
absolute fantastic work!
I very much like the way of selecting connection (and filter) from a
list grouped by type. Although I'm missing the option to select all
resources just based on type (without selecting a particular
predicate/relation). E.g. looking at presidents and then selecting
location instead of having to select location (birth) or location
(death).
What I don't like is the separation of instance-based faceted filters
(left hand side) and connections (right hand side).
I know that you don't believe in the usability of bidirectional
filtering (e.g. starting with movies, pivoting to actors, filtering on
location, and then going *back* to movies to see a filtered set of
movies). We've discussed that end of last year on the simile list. I'll
try to disprove that with a prototype of mine ;)
Great to see that you're back with new brilliant UI work again!!
Cheers,
Georgi
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Georgi Kobilarov
Freie Universität Berlin
www.georgikobilarov.com
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Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:12 AM
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Subject: freebase parallax: user interface for browsing graphs of data
Hi all,
I've been exploring some user interface ideas for browsing graphs (of
data in Freebase) in a user-friendly way, which I think might be
applicable to some of the data that you have. The screencast should
explain:
http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/
Please let me know what you think!
Thank you.
David
