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

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Hi Gary, these look really good! In particular, I think having the journal
in the ring is a huge improvement.

Still on the fence about "resume" vs. "start new". Either solution seems
well solved for from a design standpoint--it is more a question of usability
and cognitive model. I'm wondering if we should defer making "start new" the
default until we have more test evidence.

One interesting possibility that just came up is to work with Gerald's
deployment in Westchester, NY. I hope to have the chance to talk to him
about the possibility of running a few qualitative studies on the current
release. Until we have, I'd personally feel more comfortable to leave the
home view as is for the next build, adding only the journal to the ring,
until we have further insight into how kids use activities.

How would everyone feel about that?


Christian


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On 17 Jan 2010, at 10:30, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>
> > In yesterday's design meeting [1] we discussed this issue. The outcome
> > was the following (full logs can be found at [2]):
> >
> > The design team tried to find a solution to keep the distinction between
> > the Home View and the Journal clear: The Journal is the place to resume
> > previous work. The Home View is the place to start new work. It is still
> > possible for, maybe more advanced, users to resume previous work
> > (filtered by activity type) in the home view as a secondary option using
> > the activity icon palette. The Journal is more prominent in the home
> > view. This means:
> >
> > 1) Go back to the "start new" behavior when you left click on the
> > activity icon, the activity icons are all gray to visualize that
> >
> > 2) Keep the options to resume recent activities in the secondary options
> > of the palette
> >
> > 3) Keep the palette behavior as they are (right click on the activity
> > icon to bring the full palette up immediately, delayed build up on
> > hovering over the icon)
> >
> > 4) Keep the alt-click shortcut to toggle the view (holding the alt-key
> > down will change the behavior to resume by default)
> >
> > 5) Add the Journal to the activity ring (at the top) in the Home view,
> > colored to make it accessible in the home view all the time
> >
> > 6) Add a list of the n most recent activities to the Journal's secondary
> > palette to be able to resume from
>
> Just uploaded a couple of new mockup images showing some of the above
> cases. Nothing too exciting, but might help others follow the discussions:
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Home_mockup_with_journal_icon_and_start_new_default_1.png
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Home_mockup_with_journal_icon_and_start_new_default_2.png
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>


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