Comments on: Conduit UI Experiments - Part Two

By: fuzz

fuzz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:57:15 +0000

i’d definitly go for the second.
or those alternate shadings from comm#41.
keep it simple, sugar

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» Conduit UI Experiments - Some Conclusions Johns Blog — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:51:30 +0000

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By: Tack

Tack — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:57:27 +0000

My vote goes to 4, then 1.

By: Stephen Gentle

Stephen Gentle — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:03:46 +0000

Number 1 is great, except the arrows (in all of them) are way too thick in my opinion.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:20:06 +0000

How about alternate shading like in Nautilus list view etc?

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:43:13 +0000

2 looks best

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:45:53 +0000

@sausage: indeed. templates sound like a good idea.

By: sausage

sausage — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:43:16 +0000

Nice. Just keep in mind always, that it’s a developer/poweruser GUI. Showing anything like graphs is not for average Joes. They need a lot simpler GUI with a lot of pre-sets (perhaps being able to download new ones from some internet repository etc) for the REAL LIFE tasks they might be able to solve with conduit.

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:44:06 +0000

#1 definitly. I agree with Mathias though that the blue gradient would be great in highlighting the current synchronization.

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:50:16 +0000

#1 looks awesome! Great job!

The blue paint in #4 might be useful to highlight a currently selected synchronization chain, once you made the canvas accessable in terms of keyboard navigation.