Talk:Sugar Network/Tutorial

perhaps this might be a good place for dialogue about sugar network ui design?

if so, here are some suggestions:

have 3 completely different interfaces - one for users (kids) - one for teachers - one for engineers (who set up proxies and etc); where an engineer is unavailable, a teacher will have to learn how to do it, but the last thing you want is to let kids into the sweetshop of the underneath and mess up setup things and break the machine

kid user interface:

the Home Page has icons coming out of its ears... i could only remember where on a circle is the thing i found last time, i wouldnt recognise its symbol until i had used it sucessfully several times... so i think the notion of a kid icon in the middle surrounded by app icons was not such a great idea back in 2006

the neighbourhood page looks like a swarm of bees... compare it to a facebook home page, where photos of friends can be seen

so, recommendations: 1. have categories of activity; no more than 7 different things on the screen at any one time ... George Miller's famous "magic number 7" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two 2. have photo thumbnails of friends in neighbourhood view instead of abstract oxes --David Brown 22:35, 23 August 2012 (EDT)