Progress update on kiosk UI design

[tona monjo]

Thanks, James!

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, James William Yoon
<james.yoon at utoronto.ca>wrote:

> Excellent points--thanks, Tona!
>
> My only concern -and, as I've understood in design meetings, is also yours-
>> is the amount of space that the path can take on the screen. I fact, I think
>> that *flatland* is not far from the textual breadcrumb. The difference,
>> besides its graphic treatment, is that it's not based on the architecture of
>> the application, but on the steps the user has done.
>>
>> In this sense, I wonder if it wouldn't be more clear to the user to have
>> the bubbles ordered from left to right (as he's used to), and to use the
>> same size for all the bubbles. This way, the bubbles would occupy a single
>> row, and the rest of the screen would remain free for the contents.
>>
>> On the other hand, I also wonder what would happen when the number of
>> steps that the user has done increases beyond what can be displayed on the
>> screen.
>>
>
> This is indeed one of the issues we considered. You're right that the
> 'flatland' idea is not far from a textual breadcrumb--in a way, it's simply
> making the breadcrumb much more tangible.
>
> The screen space, however, that the UI would maximally take is limited by
> the number of levels in the would-be screen hierarchy. Specifically, our
> current idea is to display at most one screen from each level in the
> hierarchy, which, in our current information architecture, is three (a very
> manageable number).
>
> In this sense, it isn't the full path of a user's experience that's
> presented (like a browser navigation history might), but merely the shortest
> path to/from the root (much like the conventional breadcrumb).
>
> (We've also played around with the idea of displaying multiple would-be
> screens on the same level of a hierarchy to allow comparisons between same
> level content, but the interaction complexity involved is likely to break a
> three minute interaction threshold that we're trying to keep under.)
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Cheers,
> James
>



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