Product Design Archive

Status Consolidating all UI documents onto this page.

Legend

• [USc] User Scenario
• [Structure] Structure
• [WF] Workflow
• [IntD] Interaction Design
• [InfD] Information Design
• [VD] Visual design
• [OI] Open issue

Chandler paradigm shift

• Users work with content first, technology second (if at all)
• Break down technology-imposed separations
• Nuanced, flexible relationships between content items
• Data as knowledge
• David Allen and Getting Things Done

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Users

• TargetEndUser
• TargetUser
• VisionAndScope
• DevelopingPersonas

• Scenarios Ducky's original compilation of user scenarios
• UserScenarios
• WhatAreIssuesForPeople
• CanogaUsagePatterns
• ProposedUserScenariosFramework

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Structure

• ChandlerLandscapeProposal
• ExtensibilityDesign

Anatomy of a Chandler content item

• [USc] ContentItemUseCases
• ContentItem What is an item?
• ContentItemContentModel

Anatomy of a Chandler collection

• CollectionsUseCases
• CollectionsDesign
• ItemCollectionDesign

• Jungle.Relationships Early inventory of relationship types

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Usage Scenarios

Based on David Allen's _Getting Things Done_

Collecting

• Collecting and CreatingNewItemsWorkflow
• JottingNewItemsWorkflow
• EnteringUnfiledItems

Processing

• GenericView which eventually became...
• TriageDesign Coarse-grain information management
• ProcessingVFiling (Why do we need a Dashboard view?)
• GrandUnifiedTheoryOfBasicCapplets (Centralizing data into a single universal In and Outbox)
• PPFInformationDesign (Dashboard was formerly known as Past Present Future PPF)
• PPF
• ProcessingItems
• NaturalWorkflowDesign
• OutlookOrganizingAffordances

Organize

• OrgcessDesign
• OrganizeDesign

Lightweight organizing

Anatomy of an item: Item to Item relationships

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts
• Structure
• Order to chaos App-centric v. Attribute-centric

• [USc] User scenarios
• Immutability issue scenarios
• Polymorphability workflow scenarios

• [WF] Proposals
• Projects.StampingWorkflow and Collections workflows
• Detailed view Proposal for detailed view of a stamped item-pair
• Design issues meeting for 01262004 Design decisions about stamping and collections that came out of meeting with Mitch
• Stamping Workflow

• Issues we haven't gotten to
• [OI] [Structure] Adding and managing groups of ad-hoc attributes

Anatomy of a group of items: Item to collection relationships

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts Early ideas
• Clustered view
• Projects versus Thrasks What is the difference between a Collection and a Project?
• Item collections Mitch's thoughts on collections

• [WF] Proposed workflows
• Creating Clusters
• Navigating Clusters

• Summary documents
• Summary as of 11052003
• Summary as of 11172003
• Summary as of 11242003

• [IntD] Proposals
• Ad-hoc collections workflow
• Organizing items in a single view

Heavyweight organizing

Anatomy of views: 3-D Navigation and Query/Views

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts: What is a view? Views as Locations versus Views as Queries
• Inventory of view types
• Views versus Filters Should views behave like locations or queries?
• Standards for what should and shouldn't be a View
• Filtering scenarios

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts: How should views interact with each other?
• Structure Go to bottom of this page
• [Blue sky] Visually mapping orthogonal buckets
• Base UI interaction issues^?

• [WF] Proposals
• Navigating and creating Query/Views
• Query builder DnD GUI for building queries
• Building navigation SidebarSpec navigation functionality
• Buildling layouts
• [Structure] Collections of items
• [Structure] More on collections
• [Structure] Item collection design
• [Structure][WF] HierarchicalFolders

Retrieve and Review

• RetrieveDesign
• SearchDesign
• Data as knowledge

Do

• Read
• Write
• Update
• Converse about

Administrate

• Manage attributes
• Manage collections
• Manage sharing
• Manage privacy and security
• Synchronization

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Capplets: Workflow proposals organized by Application areas

Communications

• Blue sky Brainstorming ideas for Mail capplet
• Communications*
• CommunicationsDesignNew (Email as a 2nd class citizen)
• CommunicationsDesign Turning PIMS on their head, communications as a second-class notion in Chandler
• InvitationWorkflow
• EmailDesign
• IMAPMentalModel
• NotificationsDesign

Calendar

• [Structure] Virtual folders and Calendars What's the different between a Project of calendar items and a predefined "Calendar"?
• [WF] Calendar workflows
• [WF] Showing Task times in free blocks

Contacts

• [Structure] Modelling Users and Groups
• [Use cases] Contacts use cases

3rd party capplets: Extensibility and Chandler as a Platform

• [Structure] 3rd party capplet integration issues

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Workflows by Functional Areas

Sharing

Sharing

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts
• UI Design Sharing issues
• [Structure] FilteredShares
• [Structure] ResharingIssues
• [USc] SharingCalendars

• [WF] Proposals
• Sharing first pass
• Notification modes
• Password management
• Sharing a view
• Sharing an item
• Unified sharing
• Sharing address
• CanogaSharingDesign20040419 Old Sharing document
• SharingRevisited

• Agents
• Security

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Component Specs

• InteractionDesignStructure
• InteractionDesignSpec
• ViewsDesignSpecJul2004
• Candidates for universal toolbar
• ToolbarSpec
• SidebarSpec
• SidebarSpec2
• KibbleNavigationReview

• Content area
• SummaryTableViewSpec
• 2D navigation interaction ideas
• DashboardViewSpec UI for Triage workflow
• CalendarSpec
• DetailViewSpec

• MenuDesignSpec
• PreferencesDesignSpec

• KibbleVisualDesign
• KibbleIconDesign

• WxWindows on Mac Things it doesn't do well

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QA

• ZeroPointFourVisualBugs20040930
• KibbleInstrumentation

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Deferred Designs

Deferred Structure Designs

• ResourceItems Notes, documents, photos, MP3s...
• ContactsDesign
• AdhocCollectionsWorkflow (Item-to-item relationships)
• BrowserDesign (Anatomy of collections: Information Architecture)
• RuleBuilder (Anatomy of collections: Information Architecture)
• AttributeManager and the user's conception of the Content model

Deferred Workflow Designs

• JottingNewItemsWorkflow Creating new items with our handy-dandy command-line for dummies widget
• BuildingLayoutsWorkflow

Rejected Design Proposals

• EmailDeemphasized

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Deliverables

• .3
• .4 planning
• .4 proposal v.1
• .4 use cases
• .4 workflow proposal

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Design Process

• Process
• Vision
• [Res] Research
• [USc] User profiles and Use Cases
• [Structure] Structure
• [WF] Natural workflow design
  • OutlookOrganizingAffordances An task workflow tree analysis
• [LoU] Levels of Use
• [InfD] Information design
• [IntD] Interaction design
• [VD] Visual design

• Usability
• UsabilityEfforts
• Design review with Andy H

• Approach
• Big ideas
• Metaphors and affordances

• Design abbreviations
• Little ideas
• Journal ideas

• Design documentation
• Historical design documentation

-- MimiYin - 28 Jul 2004