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Notes from 2011-08-10 meeting

From the Design Team meeting discussion:

   
Play new game...

 

Create new game...

 

And shouldn't import image look like this?

 

Notes from 2011-08-03 meeting

From the discussions in Design Team meeting:

Agreed:

  • The gear icon is for when use creates content; the spanner icon is for simple parameter adjustments. For example, the toolbar icon for creating a custom Abacus would use the gear; the toolbar icon for adjusting temperature and humidity in Distance would use the spanner.
  • The "sparkle" star should be used as a badge on the activity icon to indicate new.
  • The five-pointed star is for favorites
  • We will use a box icon with a badge to indicate collections of things on submenues.
  • We will make more use of the combo box with embedded icon (see Record) for lists when appropriate.

Action items

  • walter to replace star icon in Abacus with badged activity icon
     
  • walter will use a box icon with a badge for that toolbar
             
  • walter will move all the Abacus sample buttons to radio buttons on the secondary toolbar

       

  • manuq will do the abacus activity icon smaller
   
  • manuq will move the title and sharing button to the standard activity secondary toolbar in distance.

   

  • gonzalo will replace the smiley face with the standard insert image icon in fototunes
  • manuq will try an isometric box for "samples"

The isometric is already done, so I'm trying another design that allows elements inside:

 
  • manuq replace the cards icon in Get Books with something better
 
  • manuq will do a smaller icon for maze

 

  • walter will move the title, sharing and stop buttons in minitamtam to the main toolbar
  • walter will use a box button with a badge for the presets in synthlab
  • walter will rethink the tamtam edit secondary toolbar: perhaps breaking it up into multiple toolbars

       

  • walter reworks Distance toolbars

       

Notes from 2011-04-10 meeting

From the discussions in IRC and email:


If we could quickly reach consensus on some outstanding issues regarding standard icons for things like the camera and user-created content, perhaps we could incorporate these icons in all the activities?

About icons, I think we need a agreement with:

  • New items (for example Implode use the star, and the star is our icon for bookmarks)
  • Save to journal / export (turtle art use the transfer style icons)
  • Load from journal
  • View icon (the eye is used for sensors in turtle art, maybe use the sensors icon in Measure?)
  • Photo / Camera / mic icons
  • Sensor input (is the Measure icon OK?)
  • The lips (i am trying to use them for text to speech, but is used in Measure)
  • User created content -- when use the gear? or spanner (wrench)? We have a spectrum from creating new content to modifying parameters to modifying the activity itself.
  • A search icon (we use the loupe, but can be confusing with the zoom icons?)
  • The loupe icon was not designed for the toolbar and have a different size
  • A standard icon (and way of handling) examples (code, projects, etc.)
  • Help icon (Finance and other activities have one)


TamTam refactoring

Proposed toolbar for TamTamMini

 

Proposed toolbars for TamTamSynthLab

   

Note: using a box for the list of presets and the standard erase button for erase  

Proposed toolbars for TamTamJam

       

Note: It has been proposed to move the play/mute buttons to the main toolbar so as to make the Beat buttons fit on smaller displays. --Walter 16:13, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

       

The new Beat Toolbar icon:

 

New preset icons:

 

Proposed toolbars for TamTamEdit

     

Note: Might make sense to move the playback / record buttons to the main toolbar. --Walter 16:13, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

     

Note: More consolidation

   

Note: Breaking it up into multiple toolbars: one for record, one for generate; one for settings; editing and playback on the main toolbar

       

Finance refactoring

     

An alternative to the Transaction subtoolbar buttons, reusing the icons "row-insert" and "row-remove":

 

Considerations:

  • I have converted the view buttons to radio buttons
  • The sensitivity of the buttons in the Transaction toolbar depend on list view selected, maybe we can trigger a change to list view when Transaction toolbar is selected
  • The context help strings may need to be changed because of the toolbars change, I will check
  • The help icon may be a good addition to Sugar
  • Change the Period label for icons inside the combo box, like in Record?
  • I tested other placements for the elements in the Transaction icon, with one and two arrows, I'm open to critics
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