I just posted another version (no undo) and I think more clarity as to what is going on... You can click the < > buttons or the small XOs.
-walter On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On 11 Nov 2009, at 15:48, Walter Bender wrote: > >> I made a patch to the color selector on the About Me panel to make it >> a little easier to navigate the color selections. Please see my screen >> cast at http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/xb42um_color-selector_tech. > > I needed to watch through a number of times before I could work out the > logic for the colours of the two smaller buddy icons. First couple of times > through I thought one was a swapped fill/stroke, and the other was a 'light' > version, then third time through I decided they must all just be random, > finally I twigged that it was a scrolling history moving from right to left > (small <-- big <-- small). > > Quick thoughts: > > - What you have now would be visually understandable after a single click if > you added a brief transition animation so that the icons scroll left/right > and resize (like a carousel). > > - Not convinced you need the undo icon if you can add the transition > animation, it feels slightly odd at the moment that the undo is right next > to the yet too be seen new colour combination (perhaps it could go above or > below the centre icon if it really needs to stay in the design). > > - The alternative is to have N small buddy icons around the central large > icon, where the small icons are a close variation of the central large icon > colours. Clicking the centre icon picks a completely new random base set of > colours; clicking any small icon moves it to the centre large position, and > generates a new set of small variants. The colour variants could just be +/- > small random steps from the main base colours, or have some spacial meaning > (left/right could be +/- fill colour, up/down could be +/- stroke colour). > > Regards, > --Gary > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel