Draft Uploader Design

[Eli Cochran]

Erin,
Thanks for these design tweaks! I think that you've moved things  
forward by quite a leap.

The use of the check-mark more than makes up for the loss of the  
Status column.

I'm not thrilled with the placement of the Add More button. It doesn't  
feel anchored anywhere. I see what you're doing by lining up the size  
total with the sizes, and the total number with the files. But I think  
that it worked better with the total number and the size together on  
the right (or under the size column) and the Add button anchored to  
the left under the File name column. Certainly something that we can  
play with later.

The other issue is around the buttons. They are gorgeous, but I was  
hoping to use standard buttons. I definitely want to avoid having to  
render the whole button as a graphic. For the most part anything that  
contains text should have live text so that it is easy to localize.  
But I might be able to pull off a sliding-door style graphic button  
where the text is still live. I'll see what I can do.

When you have a chance, send me your source files so I can pull values  
and generate images.

Thanks,
Eli

On May 15, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Erin Yu wrote:

>>
>
> Here are my initial thoughts on the Uploader.
>
> A few things to note:
> 1. When the user clicks on the "Add files" link or button from  
> wherever they are, they will be presented with the OS file system,  
> so they can start choosing files immediately rather than getting our  
> file upload dialogue box first then clicking Upload.
> 2. When the download is done, I thought it would be nice to at least  
> flash the "Done" page before dropping them back into the previous  
> page. we can talk about this one..
> 3. The total progress is shown at the bottom
> 4. I removed the "status" column. Chopping things down ruthlessly  
> for simplicity :)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Erin
>
> <Uploader.png>

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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley