Thanks, James! On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, James William Yoon <[email protected]>wrote:
> Excellent points--thanks, Tona! > > My only concern -and, as I've understood in design meetings, is also yours- >> is the amount of space that the path can take on the screen. I fact, I think >> that *flatland* is not far from the textual breadcrumb. The difference, >> besides its graphic treatment, is that it's not based on the architecture of >> the application, but on the steps the user has done. >> >> In this sense, I wonder if it wouldn't be more clear to the user to have >> the bubbles ordered from left to right (as he's used to), and to use the >> same size for all the bubbles. This way, the bubbles would occupy a single >> row, and the rest of the screen would remain free for the contents. >> >> On the other hand, I also wonder what would happen when the number of >> steps that the user has done increases beyond what can be displayed on the >> screen. >> > > This is indeed one of the issues we considered. You're right that the > 'flatland' idea is not far from a textual breadcrumb--in a way, it's simply > making the breadcrumb much more tangible. > > The screen space, however, that the UI would maximally take is limited by > the number of levels in the would-be screen hierarchy. Specifically, our > current idea is to display at most one screen from each level in the > hierarchy, which, in our current information architecture, is three (a very > manageable number). > > In this sense, it isn't the full path of a user's experience that's > presented (like a browser navigation history might), but merely the shortest > path to/from the root (much like the conventional breadcrumb). > > (We've also played around with the idea of displaying multiple would-be > screens on the same level of a hierarchy to allow comparisons between same > level content, but the interaction complexity involved is likely to break a > three minute interaction threshold that we're trying to keep under.) > > Thanks for the feedback! > > Cheers, > James > -- Tona Monjo Disseny d'interficies | Diseño de interfaces | Interface design http://www.tonamonjo.com T (+34) 654 402 387 Skype: tona.monjo
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