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