Good catch about the screenshots not being exactly the same! As Daphne and I have updated our storyboards as we've talked with each other and received feedback, they got a little out of sync. I just made an effort to fix that that by pulling them into both the Inline Edit main page and the Inline Edit Specification page as excerpts from the storyboard pages. If we stayed with this format, it would be easier for us to keep things consistent across the different pages. However, the downside is that you can only excerpt one section of a page at a time, so I couldn't excerpt multiple images (which some of the components on the Specification page did have before).
In answer to your question, Daphne & I think the wireframes on the Specification page could be used a couple of different ways: 1) to represent (at a high level) the different types of inline edit components we expect to build (most likely with just a single image). They would just provide a quick visual on what these components are, and the detail for building them would be found on the storyboard page (linked next to them). These screenshots are also the same as the ones the front of the main Inline Edit working page: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inline+Edit . This option has the advantage of allowing us to use excerpts to keep everything synchronized. 2) to show all possible screens and interactions which the developers may encounter. In this case, I believe we'd pull in quite a few more of the images/wireframe (maybe 1/3 - 1/2?) from the storyboards onto the Specification page. This option has the disadvantage of making it a little more difficult to keep things updated, as the images/ wireframes will be in several places as we couldn't use excerpts. We'd love to have feedback from the developers as to which option you'd prefer. Is it overwhelming to have to look at the full storyboards to understand all the interactions? Would it be easier if we included wireframes of all the key screens on the Specification page (as sort of a subset of the storyboards)? Is there anything else you need on the Specification page? We'd like to make sure the Specification page as usable as possible for you, so let us know what you need to work with the information most efficiently. And we can certainly continue to adapt the page as you use it and learn what works best. Cheers, Allison On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote: > > On 18-Jul-08, at 7:20 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote: > >> Okay, we've just spent a little more time on the specification >> page, http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inline+Edit+Specification >> It would be great to get some feedback from the >> community about this -- particularly developers. > > Allison and Daphne, this specification page looks great! Having a list > of the story cards at the top is very helpful, and the table of > 'visual representations of interesting moments' is excellent. > > Regarding the wireframes: Are the images on the Specification page the > same as those on the linked-to storyboard pages? The images on the > Specification page seem a bit out of context. It's not clear what > their purpose is. I'm not sure what the solution is (because I don't > know what their purpose is) but maybe some introductory text? Or > labels on the images themselves? > > > This is really shaping up! This will be an excellent template for > specification pages that will be very useful for the developers! > > -- > Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org > Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list > [email protected] > http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work Allison Bloodworth Senior User Interaction Designer Educational Technology Services University of California, Berkeley (415) 377-8243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
