On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:07:05AM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: > I prefer the first one myself, since I think it makes it quite clear > how to affect just the stroke or just the fill. The quick feedback you > get as you run through the spectrum is nice, and kind of fun. > (disco-XO!) > > The second one could also work, but I think it's would be far better > to visualize more (all!) of the possible choices without the need to > scroll through the list. I've attached a couple of mockups to > demonstrate this. The first has static swatches, which don't change at > all. The second has dynamic swatches which take on the chosen > stroke/fill colors for the fill/stroke swatches respectively, as your > current mockup does. > > In all cases, I'd recommend shortening the labels now to just "Stroke > color" and "Fill color", since the interaction is obvious. (This > would, by the way, let your sliders in the first mockup be twice as > long, which would make it easier for kids to use to select their > chosen color.) I also still find it visually much nicer when the only > XO represented here is you. > > My 2ยข, > Eben
(I've arranged all mockups on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting#Enhanced_Color_Selector) I prefer http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting#static_rows_with_separated_fill.2Fstroke * I see all possible colors at once(but we need to add optional scrolling for not so wide screens) * can change color parts separately * to make random choice, I can just click on XO like in old scheme > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've uploaded new mockups as a result of last design meeting > >> (hope I understood designers well:) to > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/0.88_Meeting#Enhanced_Color_Selector > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Color-selector-4.png > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/43/Color-selector-4.ogv > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Color-selector-5.png > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/54/Color-selector-5.ogv > > > > Nice. > > > > I much prefer the second one (the one with the rows of XOs). To me, it > > is much more obvious what is going on and more fun too. > > > > The general problem people encounter is the interaction between the > > two changes: fill visually impacts stroke and vice versa. I think this > > a good compromise solution. > > > > -walter > > > >> > >> -- > >> Aleksey > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Walter Bender > > Sugar Labs > > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
