Design Team/Proposals/Toolbars/Activity-wide Toolbar mock-ups
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Activity-wide Toolbar mock-ups
- Rationale:
- This proposal was an exploration that included early mockups based on Turtle Art and Write using a new Activity toolbar design. Main goals for the new toolbar design were for the Stop button to be available at all times; to replace the text tab sub-toolbar metaphor with something visual & larger; secondary toolbars that can be locked open to provide more tool space when needed. This work eventually led to the new toolbar designs that landed in Sugar 0.86. --Garycmartin
- Features:
- <1st feature here>
- <2nd feature here>
- Implementation Details:
- <Details here>
- Reviewer Comments:
- comments here (signed with: --Garycmartin 10:31, 24 February 2011 (EST))
TODO:
- Lots and lots of icon work
- find meaningful visual replacements for all text tab labels
- improve icon design for the stand in versions used below
- Icons should (somehow) reveal their original tab text names
- a still open design question
- really text + icons would be clearer, but space is limited
Top level Activity toolbar for TurtleArt
Example showing basic top level Activity toolbar. Note that I am not trying to redesign TA's toolbar user interface, I am trying to swap in the new proposed design without changing any existing tab/tool design from Walter. The top level Activity toolbar is present at all times. It provides access to naming, collaboration, icons for existing TA tabs, the keep (version) icon, the stop icon.
Share with is replaced with an button icon and palette to provide enough space for the tabs to move into the main Activity toolbar as icons. Note that this leaves just enough space for six replacement tab icons (enough to cover the existing Write toolbar tab content). Note that the toolbar icon would change to indicate the collaboration state.
Private icon v1
Private icon v2
Example TrutleArt "Project" tab
I've used TA's Activity icon for the primary "project" tab, this could be a technique used for all default tab contents if needed. We could also design a generic "project" icon and perhaps use it in other activities. Note that the secondary toolbar is pinned open (it's icon was clicked once), an that this triggers a resize of the below canvas to fit the space (well see lot's of Activity bugs with resizing, but we already have this issue to fix due to now needing to support screen pixel dimensions other than 1200x900).
Example TrutleArt "Edit" tab
using Eben's generic icon for edit here, it's a good strong, memorable silhouette icon (though it may not be clear in all cultures). Worth noting that icons that have clear names are going to be important, imaging a teacher trying to explain which icon to click or in text documentation, i.e "Click the scissors icon if you need to use copy and paste."
Example TrutleArt "Save as" tab
Top level Activity toolbar for Write
Example showing basic top level Activity toolbar. Note that I am not trying to redesign Writes toolbar user interface, I am trying to swap in the new proposed design without changing any existing tab/tool designs. The top level Activity toolbar is present at all times. It provides access to naming, collaboration, icons for previous tabs, the keep (version) icon, the stop icon. Write is the current worst case for extensive tab use (has 7 tabs) but you can see all can fit the new design without reorganisation. Note: the Activity title did need to be reduced a small amount for all icons to fit.
