[sword-devel] Re: OSIS Web tool

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Andrew,
	Both (pretty, and expressions of what confused you) are very valuable. 
  I've demo'd it to a number of people and watched as they pondered what 
to do.  It makes you want to yell, "Just click on....!!!".  But I don't 
know how to visually lead them to the controls pertinent for each 
screen.  We've had suggestions, for example, on the passage study page, 
to surround: "Passage Study", the current Bible and where to change it, 
current verse and verse navigation, with some kind of swoosh graphic-- 
kindof saying, "On this screen, these are the important pieces of 
navigation"

But I don't know.  I don't think anyone would say that I'm a very good 
UI designer.

So, please suggest!  And any contributions would be greatly appreciated. 
  There are a number of us with 'sandboxes' set up so we can play with 
the pages and show our ideas.  Let me know if you're volunteering to 
have a go at some stuff.

	-Troy.



Andrew Vardeman wrote:
> I think it looks decent (nice and clean, maybe not flashy but certainly not ugly).  I agree it can be a bit confusing on first use.  Which was their priority--colors and graphics or functional UI improvements?
> 
> I can do pretty, but slower than any "real" designer.  If they're thinking more functionally, I could at least express what confused me and offer suggestions for improvement.
> 
> Andrew
> 
>  
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:00PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe@crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just what should be an obvious correction:
>>
>>-and are not looking for people to make it look pretty
>>+and are now looking for people to make it look pretty
>>
>>
>>Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>
>>>Hey guys.  We've finished up about 80% of the functionality for the web 
>>>tool and are not looking for people to make it look pretty / work more 
>>>intuitively.
>>>
>>>ABS is happy with the functionality, but they are about to go out and 
>>>pay someone to redesign the user interface.  I'd hate for us to have 
>>>spent so much time on the real meat of the project to offer this as a 
>>>free gift to them, and then they have to go pay someone to add colors 
>>>and graphics.
>>>
>>>Any volunteers would be greatly appreciated by ABS and me, as well.
>>>
>>>Here's the link:
>>>
>>>http://www.crosswire.org/sword/biblenew/
>>>
>>>Thank you for your consideration.
>>>
>>>    -Troy.
>>>
>>>
>>
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