Re: Question about user interface.
Re: Question about user interface.
- Subject: Re: Question about user interface.
- From: Carlos Eduardo Mello <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:42:33 -0300
Quincey,
Thanks for your help.
I liked liked your idea a lot, specially the "thumb-button" for the
graphical editor. The UI is comming out nicely.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with design issues.
Carlos.
On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
- Then I thought of a disclosure button to the side of each text
field, to emphasize the idea that the graphical input mode would be
an extra, more complex way of inserting data; but that still
doesn't feel right.
I think this is starting to be the right approach.
My first reaction is that you're struggling because you want the
graphical view to be modeless (when it is visible, in terms of
editing the parameters), but simultaneously modal (since it
represents an alternate mode to text field entry). You're probably
stuck with that duality, but you can probably handle it. Here's a
suggestion:
1. Beside each text field, put a small button (say about 20 x 20
points -- just large enough to click on comfortably) that indicates
the graphical view. Clicking on the button opens the graphical editor.
2. When the graphical editor is open, hide the corresponding text
field and its associated button. In place of the text field, display
a larger image that represents the graphical editor mode. I would
argue for making this a live preview -- have it show the actual
contents of the graphical editor, but reduced to about the size of
the original text field box. (That way, you get also an idea of what
the other graphical editors are doing when they're active but not
open at full size.)
Beside each preview, put a "Cancel" button -- the white 'x' in a
gray circle for example. Clicking this swaps the text field and
original button back in.
3. Get rid of the segmented control. Although I can't quite
visualize it from your description, it sounds like awful UI choice
for the purpose. :)
4. Whenever a graphical editor is open, the text field must be
swapped out, but the reverse isn't true -- the text field can be
swapped out even though the larger graphic editor is closed. (Hence
the need for a preview there.)
HTH
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