Hi,
Am 28.03.2012 18:03, schrieb Carl Symons:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Fania Bremmer
<fania.brem...@basyskom.com> wrote:
Hi,
Am 28.03.2012 13:17, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
hi everyone.
please take a look at the attached screenshot of the activity
configuration.
(ignore the rendering issue with the selected wallpaper.) on smaller
resolution screens this is what it looks like; with icon settings tweaked
for
lower resolutions we get two rows of wallpapers and things look a bit
better
but i think it is clear that there is room for improvement.
Generally, I like the idea of sparsity, especially on the small
screen. Not a bunch of extra images and words. An interface where
people's first interaction is "That's cool" or "Clever". Where after a
few operations, there is no more thinking involved...the interface
fades into the background of thinking.
This function seems to be already more explicit than the Activity
Spinner or Recommendations where there is just a peeking handle just
waiting to be tugged on. Yet with a new person, one time is all it
takes and they no longer think about it.
a quick anatomy of that window, moving vertically:
* a titlebar
* a text edit
* content
* a toggle button
* control buttons
it would be nice to limit the number of vertical pixels used so that
content
space is maximized. it would also be nice to eliminate redundant and
obvious
text. as such, here is a set of proposals which i will implement if there
are
no objections:
* change title to "Activity Settings" ("settings" being less "tech" than
"configuration" and shorter, at least in english; use title
capitalization)
+1. I would even prefer a title that integrates a verb, like "edit
activity". But that's a wording question. I guess we use more often nouns
than verbs... if we decide for one, we should apply it everywhere.
I like "Edit Activity". Verb+predicate makes sense. The user arrived
at this screen to do something.
* change "Activity name:" to just "Name:". that it is an Activity is
implied,
and is redundant with the title directly above it. the name also appears
right
next to the buttons on the activity view so there is an evident corelation
+1. Maybe even write the label into the text field until the user enters the
first key? So we would save even more space.
+1. "Activity" is redundant. Label in the text field implies sparsity.
* move "Lock as private" next to the Name entry. this eliminates an entire
row
from the vertical space usage and puts all of the controls in one place
We moved it from up there to the very bottom, because it implicates a second
page with the setting of the password. To link this clearly in the user
interaction flow, we decided to put it directly on top of the buttons, to
show with the changing button label that one more step needs to be done, to
have a final private activity.
* change "Lock as private" to just "Private". the phrase "Lock as private"
is
a bit awkward (it is not a natural phrasing one would use in conversation)
and
specifying "Lock" speaks to the mechanism rather than the intention of the
user. the intention is "this is private"; the mechanism we use is "locking
it".
Before integrating this phrase we tested with a lot of people. We tested
different words and phrases like "protect, lock, mark...as private, secure"
etc. The result has beenthat most people preferred and understood the
phrase "lock as private". Here both results, the locking of the activity
with a password AND the encryption of the private data, have been
understood.
Only "Private" would not clearly communicate the underlying action for the
user.
"lock as private" sounds awkward. How about a slider with (or as) an
unlock/lock icon and "private" to the the appropriate side of the
slider, similar to layers in Inkscape or objects in Scribus.
(Especially on small screens, the Inkscape method is not as good).
Maybe "make private" with lock/unlock icon? Or is it possible to make
the slider look like a lock instead of a rounded rectangle? Scribus
icons attached.
While doing a concept for this toggle, I also came across this Privacy
Settings Slider:
http://dribbble.com/shots/415967-Privacy-Settings?list=popular&offset=28
Do you mean something like this? Would it work without labeling it at all?
one further thing i'd like to experiment with is moving the save/close
buttons
into the title bar. some other mobile OSes do this and it would accomplish
two
things: better use of screen real estate, make it more obvious to people
where
these buttons are. people often do not find the buttons at the bottom;
i've
watched dozens of people go through the UI and this is a recurring issue.
+1, also because the buttons are often covered by the virtual keyboard. But
if we move buttons up in the title bar, we should check that we make this is
a general UI guidelines and have it consistently in the system
on thing that would make this harder is that currently when marking an
activity as "private" the label on the Save button changes to a very long
text. i also question if this is really needed or not: mark it as private
and
when "save" is pressed take the necessary steps for a private activity.
see above, we tried to make it clear to the user that without the
private-activation he can just save or create the activity. With the
private-activation he needs to fulfill one more step, which is the password
dialog.
p.s. i don't have locking activities working here atm, so i can't see if
there is any UI for changing the password, or if the password is asked for
every time a private activity is saved ... in any case, i'm more concerned
at the moment about the default UI.o/active
One thing in general: I am thinking about a while now about some kind of
wizard in this case: we could split those 3 steps into a small, little
wizard, at least for the creation of new activities. That makes it easy to
add different steps in between, like the private activities step -> it would
be a handy and guided flow for the user, where he can quickly create a new
activity. Maybe later we get even more stuff, like tagging etc for
activities, which would be convenient to add in this wizard.
But I must admit that for editing an existing activity, a wizard would be
strange.
So, thumbs up for your goal to improve the dialog (both dialogs, as create
new activity and edit activity are the same).
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