[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Gavin James]

On 5 Jan 2007, at 14:58 PM, Ari Haviv wrote:

> 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.

Mind Maps and Concept Maps are supposed to solve that very problem...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

- Gavin

>
> 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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