Hi Chris--to address scalability we have a list view from which you can select favorite activities to go in the ring. This is a similar technique to the OSX dock or Windows taskbar.<div><br></div><div>But you raise a good point. I've always thought that there may be an opportunity for a scalable grid view, not unlike the iPhone, that could also show you thumbnail previews. We could adopt a paginating metaphor similar to the iPhone or even OSX spaces to make the view infinitely scalable (the freeform view could, for that matter, also utilize thumbnail previews). Then we are not only addressing scalability, but also offering an additional functional benefit. Perhaps this would be worth exploring?</div> <div><br></div><div>Christian</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Chris Ball <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank">cjb@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Christian,<br> <div><br> > I do think that there are opportunities for different views, but<br> > would love to first figure out collectively what the functional<br> > differences/affordances are that we are designing for...<br> <br> </div>The functional difference I'm interested in is supporting more activities;<br> the ring view was designed when we shipped half as many activities as<br> we do now, and I think it's reached its scalability limit.<br> <div><div></div><div><br> Thanks,<br> <br> - Chris.<br> --<br> Chris Ball <<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank">cjb@laptop.org</a>><br> One Laptop Per Child<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:anything@christianmarcschmidt.com" target="_blank">anything@christianmarcschmidt.com</a><br>917/ 575 0013<br><br><a href="http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com" target="_blank">http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/cms_" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/cms_</a><br> </div></div>