Hi all Yesterday, Simon and Gerald filled the group in on the results of the tests conducted recently to understand the merits of a home view with "start new" as the default behavior for activity icons in the ring.
The interesting conclusion in both cases was that children don't necessarily have an idea of whether they want to resume a previous activity or start a new one *before* clicking the activity icon. Rather, they start by simply wanting to engage with a particular activity, and the decision whether to resume or start new follows. In other words, the two functions are equal, without one taking precedence over the other. Children appear to want the choice. We have seen this expressed in the desire to want to start new or resume directly from inside the activity, though there will be other possible solutions. Also noteworthy is that children don't discover the hover palette at first, so it is questionable whether we can rely on the menu it's current implementation to accomplish our goals for start new/resume. I suggested that we reconvene on Saturday at 10:30 EST / 3:30 UTC to brainstorm design solutions. Thanks, Christian _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
