inline edit specifications question

[Allison Bloodworth]

Good catch about the screenshots not being exactly the same! As Daphne  
and I have updated our storyboards as we've talked with each other and  
received feedback, they got a little out of sync. I just made an  
effort to fix that that by pulling them into both the Inline Edit main  
page and the Inline Edit Specification page as excerpts from the  
storyboard pages. If we stayed with this format, it would be easier  
for us to keep things consistent across the different pages. However,  
the downside is that you can only excerpt one section of a page at a  
time, so I couldn't excerpt multiple images (which some of the  
components on the Specification page did have before).

In answer to your question, Daphne & I think the wireframes on the  
Specification page could be used a couple of different ways:

1) to represent (at a high level) the different types of inline edit  
components we expect to build (most likely with just a single image).  
They would just provide a quick visual on what these components are,  
and the detail for building them would be found on the storyboard page  
(linked next to them). These screenshots are also the same as the ones  
the front of the main Inline Edit working page: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inline+Edit 
. This option has the advantage of allowing us to use excerpts to keep  
everything synchronized.

2) to show all possible screens and interactions which the developers  
may encounter. In this case, I believe we'd pull in quite a few more  
of the images/wireframe (maybe 1/3 - 1/2?) from the storyboards onto  
the Specification page. This option has the disadvantage of making it  
a little more difficult to keep things updated, as the images/ 
wireframes will be in several places as we couldn't use excerpts.

We'd love to have feedback from the developers as to which option  
you'd prefer. Is it overwhelming to have to look at the full  
storyboards to understand all the interactions? Would it be easier if  
we included wireframes of all the key screens on the Specification  
page (as sort of a subset of the storyboards)? Is there anything else  
you need on the Specification page?

We'd like to make sure the Specification page as usable as possible  
for you, so let us know what you need to work with the information  
most efficiently. And we can certainly continue to adapt the page as  
you use it and learn what works best.

Cheers,
Allison

On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:

>
> On 18-Jul-08, at 7:20 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:
>
>> Okay, we've just spent a little more time on the specification  
>> page, http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inline+Edit+Specification
>> It would be great to get some feedback from the
>> community about this -- particularly developers.
>
> Allison and Daphne, this specification page looks great! Having a list
> of the story cards at the top is very helpful, and the table of
> 'visual representations of interesting moments' is excellent.
>
> Regarding the wireframes: Are the images on the Specification page the
> same as those on the linked-to storyboard pages? The images on the
> Specification page seem a bit out of context. It's not clear what
> their purpose is. I'm not sure what the solution is (because I don't
> know what their purpose is) but maybe some introductory text? Or
> labels on the images themselves?

>
>
> This is really shaping up! This will be an excellent template for
> specification pages that will be very useful for the developers!
>
> -- 
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu