[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] 'Resume' vs 'Start a new' Activity

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/10/2010 10:33 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> Simon wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> Would you care to try patches to show both "start new" and "resume"
>>> icons on the home view (and maybe in the journal too)?
>>
>> First I hope to reach consensus here about the approach to take. Can
>> you elaborate a bit more about your approach?
>
> The difficulty is that your kids are resuming activities when whey want
> to be
> starting fresh ones. The cause of the difficulty is that the UI is not
> correctly capturing their intentions. Their intentions are not being
> properly
> captured because the affordances on the home screen are not properly
> constructed. Therefore, to better capture the user's intention, we should
> change the perceived affordances present on the home screen to invite both
> possible actions ("resume" and "start new") on more even footing.
> Since the individual patterns of
> "click an unsaturated activity icon to launch a fresh instance" and
> "click a colored activity icon to resume the last instance"
> still seem to be individually sound, we should *first* try to improve
> the home
> screen to invite both "start new" and "resume latest" actions by
> applying both
> patterns simultaneously.
>
> Michael

Right, the problem is that it is not both options are represented that 
well in the UI. You said that your patch would solve it, can you 
elaborate how you would do that? How the UI for the user would change?

Thanks,
    Simon