[Sugar-devel] Friends view UI affordances?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> El Sun, 30-08-2009 a las 17:31 -0400, Michael Stone escribió:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Before you know how Friends work, the Friends view it is completely
> barren
> > except for the central XO-person and, as a result, is rather unusable.
> What are
> > some ways that we could make the function of this screen more
> discoverable?
> >
> > So far, I've thought of a couple of things which might do the trick, but
> I'm
> > interested in your feedback too. My ideas include:
> >
> >  1. Putting up a label when you have no friends telling you how to go get
> some.
> >
> >  2. Putting up a combobox listing people who you might add as friends.
> >
> >  3. Putting up a display like the "journal empty" display to try to tell
> you
> >     why you aren't seeing anything.
> >
> >  4. Putting up a button to move you to the neighborhood view, perhaps
> with a
> >     notification event to inform you of what to do.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> If it were up to me, I'd go with 1 or 3 for simplicity, but leaving the
> XO guy in the center to avoid breaking the spaciality of the transition
> from the mesh all the way down to the activity circle.


My thoughts exactly.

Christoph

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