UI Design Archives

Legend

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

Users

Target end-user

• Target user
• Target use cases^?
• Vision and scope Mimi's understanding of the target end-user for Canoga

Use case framework

• User scenarios
• What are issues for people
• Canoga usage patterns
• Proposed User Scenarios Framework
• Scenarios Ducky's original compilation of user scenarios

Usage Patterns: Workflow proposals

Based on David Allen's _Getting Things Done_

Collecting

• [WF] Jotting new items
• [WF] Creating new items

Processing: Triage

• [Structure] Generic view Original concept

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts: Why do we need a Dashboard view?
• Processing versus Organizing Current PIMs provide one interface to perform two orthogonal tasks
• Entering unfiled items Users need a place to throw things without labelling them

• [WF] Proposals
• [Structure][WF] Jungle.GrandUnifiedTheoryOfBasicCapplets
• [WF][InfD] Information design for Dashboard view
• [WF][InfD] PPF Past Present Future
• [WF]Processing items in the Detail view
• [WF]Triage workflow

Organizing: Information management

• Chandler landscape proposal
• [Structure] Relationships Early inventory of relationship types

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
• [WF] Rule builder

Review

• Data as knowledge

Do

• Read
• Write
• Update
• Converse about

Administrate

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

Capplets: Workflow proposals organized by Application areas

Mail

• [Blue sky]Blue sky Brainstorming ideas for Mail capplet
• Communications*

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

Workflow proposals organized by Feature areas

Sharing

• [Structure] Introduction to concepts
• UI Design Sharing issues

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

• Agents
• Security

[IntD] UI components

Chrome

• Navigation bar
• Projects.SidebarSpec
• Toolbars: Candidates for universal toolbar

Content area

• Content area
• Summary table widget
• 2D navigation interaction ideas
• Dashboard view
• Calendar spec
• Detail view
• Browser

WxPython

• WxWindows on Mac Things it doesn't do well

Deliverables

• .3
• .4 planning
• .4 proposal v.1
• .4 use cases
• .4 workflow proposal
• Design deliverables for Canoga^?

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UI design matters

• Process
• Vision
• [Res] Research
• [USc] User profiles and scenarios^?
• [Structure] Structure
• [WF] Natural workflow design
• [LoU] Levels of Use
• [InfD] Information design
• [IntD] Interaction design
• [VD] Visual design

• Usability

• Approach
• Big ideas
• Metaphors and affordances

• Design abbreviations
• Little ideas
• Journal ideas
• Journal entries

• Design documentation