Hi, Interesting topic. I'm no designer, but have thought a bit about this too, lately.
On Monday 17 June 2013 11:17:13 Josh Leverette wrote: > Ok, I'll be bluntly honest about this. I've lately begun to wonder if the > Welcome screen at current is even worthwhile. From a pragmatic perspective, > it provides only *useless information* to the user. Or, *Information which > would never be acted on, under normal circumstances.* The number of tweets, > emails, etc. that you've produced throughout whatever time period will have > zero impact on anything you do on a daily basis, if ever. I think the plan is to have a set of configurable sources for the infographics. Without knowing where exactly it will go, I think there are some interesting use cases for it. I for one would find it nice to have these informations in there: - Number of missed/unread events. This aggregates emails/sms/ims/followed tweets/whatever into one number. The colored bubbles on the outside could act like a clock and indicate the rough time when the event happened, assigning a different color to each service type. That would allow you to immediately see what you've missed judging by the colors if its worth looking at. - Gimmicks like fitbit statistics, newsticker, maybe sports ticker. - maybe a weatherforecast showing the upcoming weather in the colored bubbles. All in all I think there are cool things possible with it. I agree with you that more recent or even future data seems more useful than statistics of the last month(s) > > If the user wants to adorn their welcome screen with aesthetically pleasing > artwork, they should just have the option of throwing an awesome wallpaper > up. From a design standpoint, I'd also wonder if it might look better to > just place the time and date in a small, elegant, and unobtrusive font on > the bottom left hand corner of the welcome screen and leave the rest of it > clean and empty to showcase the user's chosen artwork... that is, if the > user has elected not to show any of the active information I'm about to > mention next. Yes, I share the opinion that it should be possible to hide it from there. Haven't put much thought into alternatives. > Would it be possible for the welcome screen to provide a quick view of the > weather (maybe *make *the welcome screen wallpaper a(n animated) graphic > depiction of the weather, and perhaps annotate some data about the weather > as well) and/or give an interactive view of unread notifications. > > In all cases (including keeping the current welcome screen), what if > swiping up from the bottom of the welcome screen took the user directly > into the camera, since it isn't being used for anything else on the welcome > screen? Facebook phone took a severe beating from the media for having no > quick access to the camera. There is quick access to the camera through the left edge using the launcher. That also works when the greeter is there. What I miss the most, and dont even have an idea how to combine with the current infographic, are media control buttons for the music player - given that listening to music is my main use case for the mobile phone. Br, Michael -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
