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Weblog:   Dashboard - very cool. A must see.
Subject:   There's a flaw in the implementation IMHO
Date:   2003-07-12 12:28:40
From:   anonymous2
This is a really cool idea and the first time I've been exposed to it. However, I'm not sure how useful this would be for me given the lack of screen real estate on my iBook. The dashboard window would always have to be exposed, otherwise I'd miss the information. And if I have to go out of my way to look for the dashboard window amongst a cluster of application windows, then it disrupts my workflow. It needs to work like the new version of Proteus instant messenger on Mac OS X. When you get an IM from someone you are not already chatting with, a translucent window unveils itself at the top of the screen with the instant message. You can easily choose to ignore it, and just as easily choose not to. I'm a bit of a programmer myself, I may just hack something up on OS X that's compatible with this system.
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  • There's a flaw in the implementation IMHO
    2003-07-13 14:28:02  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    The UI that you see in the screenshots, and that you may have seen in our demo, is pretty much just a placeholder. I think that we'll have to iterate several times on the interface before we start to get close to the right UI.

    Things to consider: asynchronous notification of matches; matches-on-demand; hover over 'match compartments' for more information, and so on.

    Hopefully in two or three weeks we'll be far enough along to start focusing on the UI; I think that's a rich area of mainly greenfield.
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