[Freedombox-discuss] Condemos: FBx UI & Potential Distro

[Matt Dodson]

Sadly I'm not able to make it over to NY for the Hackfest, as I've no money, I would have put up with the US Boarder Agency to be there.

The four colours are user defined (as percentages), set on the 'Evaluate' page with the bars, although I'm thinking of having quick ones elsewhere. I was thinking in the 'Ethereal' page, allow drag-drop categorising and tagging, contacts would be listed from the 'yourself' button on the 'Subject' page and tags and categories would be added with on the 'Focus' page. there's a lot of page switching involved with this design, I hope that i'll end up feeling progressive, rather than cumbersome, with the right use of animated switching/sliding, as well as some automatic switching.

There is a high use of metadata in this design, in sorting and visualising, I think this leads to a richer experience.

Would like to hear more of your thoughts

-m-



> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:27:53 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Condemos: FBx UI & Potential Distro
> From: nick.m.daly at gmail.com
> To: war2none at hotmail.com
> 
> Matt, will you be at the hackfest this weekend?  I'd love to discuss
> this with you.  I know I don't understand all the UI elements (not
> sure what the purpose of some are, and not sure what contributes to
> the 4 colors (life, social, etc) and their relative scores.  It would
> be interesting to see some (user-focused) categorizing and tagging,
> though: allow the user to categorize people and rate the relative
> number of interactions in each category.  My concern is that a lot of
> the information seems like metadata, and your could be extended with
> some of the ideas from the FBX UI page.
> 
> More thoughts later, I'm sure.
> 
> Thanks for putting this together, it's a very interesting UI!
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Matt Dodson <war2none at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > First I should introduce myself, I'm an artist from the UK, that has been
> > following the FBx Project from about April 2010. For many years prior I've
> > thought it would be good to have a computerised democracy to the smallest
> > level, creating community collaboration for their environment, with the use
> > of a Fritjof Capra inspired evaluation system to represent balances and
> > imbalances, as well as the strength of relationships. The FreedomBox it the
> > perfect base for this as it's intimate, as well as being privacy-aware.
> >
> > I've created UI design to express my ideas. The UI design as well as having
> > the evaluation system, acts as (what I call) an 'Uber-Web', where editing
> > and discussing websites can happen, without interfering with the website
> > itself, as well as additional features. The UI provides searching and
> > refining pages, aided by the evaluation system, and different pages of
> > persevering and organising information, as well as a page devoted to
> > discourse. I've designed it in mind to be turned to any application, and yes
> > it supports apps.
> >
> >
> > THe design in SVG can be downloaded, from the link bellow (best viewed in a
> > 880x1280 browser window):
> > https://raw.github.com/mythius/Misc/master/Condemos-GUI-mock-up%20design%20%28for%20a%20880x1280%20brower%20window%29.svg
> >
> >
> > I've intentionally been unverbose in the description, as I'd like a response
> > of the intuitiveness of it, please ask any questions and give me honest
> > feedback.
> >
> >
> > -matt dodson-
> >
> > www.various-journeys.co.uk
> >
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