Re: [Usability] Ideas for Usability Hackfest

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 7 Oct 2009, at 19:27, Máirín Duffy wrote:

> It might be cool to build in some more user experience centric  
> documentation right within the little demo app to talk about what  
> kinds of data sets are best represented with this widget, which are  
> not well-represented with it, and maybe provide the demos in a  
> pattern-centric style navigation than a widget-centric navigation.

Yep, providing code snippets for the patterns is certainly something  
we thought would be a good idea in our initial ideas knockabout, and  
building on gtk-demo could certainly be one way to kick-start that  
particular aspect of the project.

Even if we don't end up doing it that way, your point about  
interactivity is a good one, and I think we'd probably want to think  
about how to provide some sort of animation/interactivity where  
appropriate even in a web-based pattern library.  A few frames of  
animation is often all it takes to replace half a dozen paragraphs of  
descriptive text.  (The downside, of course, is that it's not so good  
if you want to print out a particular pattern for reference...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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