On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Allan Caeg <
allancaeg ubuntu com> wrote:
> Hello,
> The Dash and the planned Workspace Switcher take advantage of the user's
> spatial memory. It does so by having a fixed arrangement of items (app icons
> for Dash/workspaces for Workspace Switcher). Their linear order of the items
> can also be changed manually by the user and this order can have meaning
> attached to it (like sorting by level of importance).
> On the other hand, the Window Picker is two-dimensional instead of linear.
> Also unlike the Dash and Workspace switcher, the arrangement of items (in
> this case, windows) depends on an algorithm and the user can't manually edit
> the sorting.
> To visualize it,
> see
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7938/windowpicker.png .
> This is my recommendation inspired by Firefox Panorama. Like on the dash,
> let's take advantage of the user's spatial memory by attaching a fixed
> linear relationship between windows. It'll still be flexible by allowing to
> user to manually rearrange windows, so the user can meaningfully sort them.
> The approach here is just a bit different from the Dash or Window Picker,
> because there's a bigger real estate allocated, but the principles would be
> fundamentally similar.
> It's best to read the Principles of Design that Aza wrote here to understand
> the rationale behind and to test the latest Firefox 4 beta build to test how
> it works.
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Regards,
> Allan
> User Experience Designer
>
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