Hello Dickon, My suggestion is to simplifiy the interface as much as possible.
More white space, less larger headings,less dark colors in background. Do away with tag cloud. Try not mentioning the technical stuff, like the term 'Tag'. The top horizontal menu should be more like traditional menu, now it is about the 'tag'. If it fits your need you could also try using tree view plugin. These are my suggestions, but I am no interface expert, just a simple TW lover who has uptil now not created any decent TW document till date. On Sep 14, 4:24 am, dickon <[email protected]> wrote: > I have posted about the AMBIT project a few times before. AMBIT a > developing therapeutic method of working with young people who have > multiple complex problems (crime, mental health, drugs, family > breakdown, etc). We have trained a number of teams in this method and > the 'manual' (how-to-do-it) is an opensource TW, versions of which can > be found athttp://www.tiddlymanuals.com > > Using TiddlyWeb (and soon TiddlySpace) we can have a number of teams > making local adaptations to 'their' local version of the manual, so it > isn't just a bunch of geezers in an ivory tower telling them how to do > it from afar. > > the workers seem to like working in this way, but we are really trying > to beef up the support from the manual (adding streaming video > examples of "how to do it, etc") and to improve the navigation and the > feel of it. > > This is where I, as a non-expert, am struggling a bit. At a recent > TiddlyChat meeting Paul Downey made some excellent and insightful > comments about the U.I., and how perhaps if we wanted to avoid > 'scaring' non-technical therapists/workers we ought to consider > designing a layout that looked a bit more like what they are used to - > which is notebooks, or reference texts; paper rather than digital > screens. > > It occurred to me that there may be experts out there, who with a few > tweaks could show me stuff to improve the user experience that would > take me hours/years to work out. > > If anyone in this group would like to download a copy of the manual > (http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki) and have a > hack at the style, I would be hugely interested and appreciative. One > possibility would be for me to then circulate different versions to > the various teams who are meant to be checking in to 'their' local > variants of the manual, to see if they have strong preferences for > these over the present version. > > All the best, > Dickon Bevington -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
