Hi Anastasia & Michelle,
After reviewing the Layout Customizer at: http://build.fluidproject.org/sakai-imagegallery-tool/sample-code/reorderer/portal/portal.html
, we had a little designer pow-wow over email today in an effort to
get our thoughts together before we sent any new instructions to you
guys. :) Based on that discussion, we have two changes/suggestions for
the Layout Customizer design/implementation:
1) Please change the "This box cannot be placed any higher in this
column" message to "This box cannot be placed above a locked box." We
will definitely test the understandability of this phrase with users
in usability testing.
2) There seems to be a bug with this message appearing in a situation
where we'd prefer it not appear. You may just still be working on this
but we thought we'd let you know just in case. If you drag the portlet
in the upper-right hand side to the upper left, trying to put it above
the locked portlet, you (properly) get a warning message. However,
when you then immediately drag it over the upper right portlet without
letting go of your mouse in between (so that it moves to the top right
position) you *still* see the message, but we'd prefer that you don't.
In that situation, it should disappear when the portlet is dragged
back into the right-hand column since there is no locked portlet there.
Also, in playing around with it just now I saw the problem Herb
experienced, and I agree with him that having the "This portlet may
not be/this box may not be..." message appear when your portlet hasn't
even moved at least halfway into the column the message is referring
to is confusing, and like his suggestion that it not appear until at
least 60% of the portlet is in that column. And conversely, the
message should disappear in exactly the same place when moving out of
that column (which gives some guidance for when it should disappear in
#2 above). I almost think the moving portlet should be even a bit
farther (e.g. 80%?) into the target column before the message appears,
but we can also test this.
Finally, I also just wanted to mention that I personally experienced
some weird flashing and resultant difficulty in moving portlets around
today. I believe the portlet would really quickly flash back and forth
between different drop areas. I wasn't able to recreate it just now,
but wondered if it could have something to do with moving your cursor
(quickly) back and forth through two different drop areas as you are
dragging your portlet?
Thanks so much, and let us know if you have any questions!
Allison
Begin forwarded message:
From: Daphne Ogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 29, 2008 1:45:58 PM PDT
To: Gary Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: erin yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Allison Bloodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: Re: Layout Customizer Keyboard Interaction
Agree on all counts. The message persisting sounds like a bug to
me. My guess is that isn't on purpose.
-Daphne
On May 29, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:
Agreed.
erin yu wrote:
I agree, we should be consistent when display the warning message.
Changing the message to "This box cannot be placed above a locked
box" and only displaying it when you drag a portlet over the
locked one sounds good to me.
This is also because we don't display warning msgs when they try
to move a bottom portlet further down, a portlet on the right
column further right, etc.
Erin
On 29-May-08, at 2:17 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:
Hey guys,
When looking at the portlet layout manager today I noticed a
small inconsistency. 1) When you move a portlet that is under
the top right portlet to the top of the right column, even if you
drag it very high you don't get a "this portlet cannot be moved
any higher in this column" message. 2) If you drag the that same
portlet to the upper left, trying to put it above a locked
portlet, you do get that message. 3) However, when you then drag
it over the upper right portlet (so that it moves to the top
right position) right after you've dragged it to the upper-left
(e.g. you haven't let go of the mouse) you *still* see the
message. I don't think you should see it in that situation since
in situation #1 you don't see the message.
What do you guys think? Thought it might be easier to get our
thoughts straight as a group before sending out to fluid-work and
confusing the implementors. :)
Also, perhaps Gary & Erin you can weigh in on changing the
message about moving a portlet above a locked portlet? (E.g.
"This box cannot be placed above a locked box" )
Thanks,
Allison
Daphne Ogle
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cell (510)847-0308
Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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