[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Ari Haviv]

What I'm hoping for is a way to see the "big picture" to get an idea of how
all the information is related. Trees and search doesn't really do that.

probably something more relevant for the file manager than arranging
windows.

On 1/5/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ari,
>
> On 1/5/07, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another idea I found was the zoomable UI
> > http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pad++/
> > http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/
> > I think if this concept is going to work, zooming should show more
> objects
> > and information and not make text size ridiculously large or tiny
>
> The ZUI concept has its own issues. For me, the biggest one is that it
> makes you care about spatial data locations and without a good tool
> you'll have to clean up (reorganize) your world whenever you delete or
> add a new item. They don't automate anything for you. Also, with lots
> of files you won't really be able to work by zooming and scrolling
> around in your virtual world. Search is still the primary tool for
> finding data, so why should you care about locations, at all?
>
> Zooming itself is nice for understanding what is happening, but it's a
> slow process. In the end, you'll always want to get to the target
> location with one single click instead of zooming. I also have the
> impression that most of the ZUI studies use zooming as an alternative
> for a very flawed model and then shout "Hurray! Conclusion: ZUIs are
> the best!". There are nice concepts of ZUIs, but I don't think that
> they are a good replacement for the Desktop model. I still can't
> imagine how people will find it more effective/comfortable to scroll
> by zooming out, panning, and zooming in.
>
> Bye,
> Waldemar Kornewald
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