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===Cennydd Bowles=== | |||
I think there are some good concepts here and the changes you've made are well-considered responses to your findings. You identify a couple of major points in your research, namely that current approaches are too complex and managing folders is painstaking. The problem with this astute analysis is now you have to be sure your solution demonstrably solves those problems! I'm not sure it does yet, although with more iteration I'm sure you'd find further efficiencies. | |||
Drag and drop is definitely a familiar and direct interaction, but Jim is right to point out that there are some accessibility concerns, related to both visual and motor skills. Would your solution work well with different input devices? e.g. a trackpad or even a keyboard, as opposed to a mouse? | |||
Visual/spatial metaphors sometimes don't scale well. Your zoom control is obviously an attempt to counter this problem, but do you think there would come a point (eg zoom level, total number of bookmarks or folders) at which the system would have to change more significantly to work at large numbers? For instance, how might you help users to lay out large numbers of bookmarks in order to sift through them? | |||
Your testing methods seem very sensible, and I absolutely applaud your choice of two different prototyping methods. I think your decision to drop the 'grab bar' was sensible, although I can absolutely understand why you added it. I think it's one of those cases where convention (the OS and desktop, in this case) has to rule over a "more correct" solution. |
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