On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We should ban banners, really :) The two points that makes our feedback different from a banner are: * It reinforces the zoom metaphor. * It deals with the problem of children clicking on 2-3 activities at the same time, which proved to be a real issue in the field (will faster activities address this? not sure). </blockquote></div> I think Eben's got a great plan.  The iPhone does something similar, when you hit say the "Clock" icon on the home screen you are instantly zoomed into a static representation of the UI, which populates in a few seconds once the program launches.  Overall, it gives the impression of high performance and instant feedback, when the reality may not be that. I also like how it deals with the problem of clicking more activities while some are already launching, I have succumbed to that before :) Ultimately this combined with 2-3 second launching should provide a perfectly good experience.  Perhaps for the power users, shift-click could mean "launch this activity in the background"? -Wade