DISCUSSION: Gallery Card - Front and Back

[James William Yoon]

This is really fantastic work guys!

A couple of comments/considerations:
- This is something that might've been brought up already during a DIA chat,
but I wanted to bring it up again: what's the use case for someone
customizing the galleries within a theme? If there are only going to be
handful to begin with, is there a good reason for the user to reduce the
number of galleries he/she wants to see by one or two? One of our original
ideas was to have a one page printout per theme to begin with--if the user
selects less than the full number of galleries, will the printout show
whitespace where those galleries would have been, or would we consider
additional content for the galleries that are still on the printout? (i.e.,
is there any benefit at all to reducing the number of galleries the user
selects on the screen?)
- In some of the sketches, we show the user being able to select multiple
themes/tours--I like this idea, as it gets back to the possibility of having
a consolidated map (as opposed to four separate maps for four separate
tours). I wonder how the complexity of two layers of customization will play
out for most users though (customizing of themes/tours, and then further
customizing of galleries within selected themes/tours)--we'd have to make
the conceptual model of how our system works  instantaneously clear if we
want to keep the experience short.

Great work folks, and see you this afternoon to chat more!

Cheers,
James

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Alistair Jones <ajonesolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, these are cool sketches.  I really like how you've kicked up the
> interaction a notch in these.
>
> First, a comment about your multi touch vs single touch designs: these
> seem to be two interaction techniques that can (and should) exist on
> the same system.  Perhaps the least tech-savvy users won't understand
> the multi touch interactions, but can still easily manage the single
> touch ones.
>
> Second, I agree with Vicki's feedback. And, I think that you have here
> is something that isn't too far off from that 3 minute mark, while
> still having interesting and fun interaction.  Perhaps to help ensure
> that time limit, the gallery card could already be filled with all (or
> some) of the galleries, and the users must deselect the ones they
> don't want, instead of selecting the ones they do want.
>
> Third, Vicki, what time did you want to talk about these things?? 10AM
> or 10PM on monday?  Both actually work for me...
>
> Ok lets keep talking!
>
> Alistair
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> PS: Sorry if there are four of five emails from me in a row in every
> one's inbox on Monday morning! Have a good day!
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Leah Maestri <leahm at sfu.ca> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Vicki, great feedback. I totally agree with the 3-minute interaction
> constraint. It will be interesting to see if it would take longer to 'push'
> or 'toss' cards into a pile of 3 Gallery Themes (as an option...) in user
> tests??
> >
> > MORE SKETCHES:
> > I have posted a few more sketches on the wiki that use the same
> 'card-toss' metaphor for the Front of the Gallery theme card.
> >
> > These sketches propose the same kind of dock where the visitor can push
> different galleries into a section on the left side of the card called
> "Chosen Galleries". As the visitor selects galleries, the card last pushed
> would be displayed to the right side with all the gallery info.
> >
> > There are two proposals for this; the second proposal is just slightly
> different - the "Chosen Galleries" takes up the entire left side panel to
> try and emphasize it as the focal point (as it relates to the 'Dock' and the
> 'Gallery Overview'.) Not sure if this makes that much of a difference but I
> thought it couldn't hurt to talk about it.
> >
> > Let's keep talking. :)
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Victoria Moulder" <vmoulder at sfu.ca>
> > To: "Leah Maestri" <leahm at sfu.ca>
> > Cc: "fluid-work" <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>, jess at jessmitchell.com,
> "james yoon" <james.yoon at utoronto.ca>, ajonesolt at gmail.com, "leila
> aflatouni" <leila_aflatouni at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:21:41 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> > Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: Gallery Card - Front and Back
> >
> > Hi Leah,
> >
> > This is a great detailed account of how proposing to reframe the gallery
> card and associated challenges.  In our last conversation with the DIA it
> seemed like Jennifer, Madeline, were for gallery selection/deselection and
> Matt thought that people could self select were they wanted to go after the
> tour was printed. Given that they only want to people to spend max 3-mins in
> front of the kiosk, I'm hesitant to give them an interaction model that
> encourages play.
> >
> > I think these draws propose a good starting place for more conversation!!
>  I suggest the we all meet on Adobe connect Monday - 10:00PM PDT to discuss
> these sketches?
> >
> > Best, Vicki
> >
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> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Leah Maestri" <leahm at sfu.ca>
> > To: "fluid-work" <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>, jess at jessmitchell.com,
> "james yoon" <james.yoon at utoronto.ca>, ajonesolt at gmail.com,
> vmoulder at sfu.ca, "leila aflatouni" <leila_aflatouni at yahoo.com>, "colin
> clark" <colin.clark at utoronto.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2009 16:48:46 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> > Subject: DISCUSSION: Gallery Card - Front and Back
> >
> > Team Leah and Leila brainstorm,
> >
> > To help address the functionality of the "Gallery Theme Card" of the
> kiosk interface; we have put all our sketches here on the wiki (under
> Sketches > Gallery Theme Card):
> >
> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Notes+and+recommendations+based+on+DIA+feedback+%28December+2%2C+2009%29
> >
> > Areas addressed:
> > - Design Metaphor
> > - Text vx Images
> >
> > Please note that we have not addressed the "Front" part of the Gallery
> Theme card yet. This is still to come.
> >
> > DISCUSSION:
> >
> > Design Metaphor - Problem Areas
> >
> > We wish to address the last iterations mix of complex interaction
> metaphors. In keeping with the "Card-flip" metaphor, the sketches shown on
> the wiki try to illustrate the same aesthetic/behavior of someone playing
> with a regular deck of cards. To show the playfulness of this interaction,
> here are some ideas for how the dock and cards would behave (we've included
> the dock behavior in this brainstorm, as we believe the metaphor needs to
> bridge between both the Gallery Card and Dock):
> >
> > To select a card-theme from the dock, visitor's could:
> > 1- (For Multi-touch screen) Drag or 'push' a theme-card into the middle
> of the screen. Similar to how a poker shuffler would deal a card. Theme-card
> would animate the action of being "tossed" by spinning into the middle. Once
> in the middle, card would expand to a larger size show the "back" of the
> card. (Card Aesthetics discussion to follow)
> >
> > OR
> >
> > 2- (For single-touch screen) Visitors could simply select the theme-card
> with a single touch from the dock and still have the animation show a card
> being "tossed" into the middle.
> >
> >
> >
> > If the visitor wanted to select more than one "chosen" Gallery Theme Card
> (i.e. the card in the center) to view, the screen would remain as is with
> the first selected theme-card in the middle, leaving the visitor with a
> choice to either preview this card, or select another card to "toss" into
> the middle - allowing up to 3 cards. (See Sketch 5 and 6)
> >
> >
> >
> > To preview one of the "chosen" Gallery Theme Cards, we propose the
> following actions:
> > 1- (For Multi-touch screen) Finger touches card at the far-right side,
> and slides finger to the left side to "flip" card over
> >
> > OR
> >
> > 2- (For single-touch screen) Visitors can simply touch the card once and
> the card will show animation of flipping over to reveal the "Front" of the
> card
> >
> >
> > If the visitor is happy with all three "chosen" Gallery Theme Cards, they
> can press the "Print selection" button at the bottom right corner of the
> screen (above the dock). Visitors can easily remove a Gallery Theme Card by
> pressing the "Circle-X" button at the top-right corner of each card.
> >
> > Text vs Image - Problem Areas
> >
> > In order to help convey what each gallery theme is, we have addressed
> this issue in two ways:
> >
> > 1- Show dock images as an archetypal image with a greater emphasis on the
> "Title" of the theme. The "Back" of the card that is displayed in the center
> of the screen will show as a montage/collage of images that illustrate the
> theme.
> >
> > OR
> >
> > 2- The back of the Gallery Theme Card can display as a slide show of
> different images that convey the theme -
> >
> > The titles of each Gallery Theme Card would be displayed with a black bar
> across either the bottom of the card, or along the right side of the card
> with the text written upwards.
> >
> >
> > More brainstorms to come that address:
> > - Info Architecture (of Gallery theme card)
> > - Attributes that Introduce Didactic Information of Galleries
> > - Flow of Interaction (in sketches)
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Leah
> >
>
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