Keep it simple, focused, elegant. This should feel light, incisive, precise, fast.
Search is really powerful, and your data set--installed applications--is small. Adding category filters belies the search experience. Frederik, try listing a small set of use cases describing exactly what you're proposing. It will help keep this discussion focused and minimize entropy. David On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:27, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I like the mockup, but I think something similar to the attached would >> be nicer. I visualize the window only appearing when someone starts >> typing into the box and the results would filter down. When the user >> clears the box (or presses enter to execute the top entry) the window >> would disappear. >> >> Luke. >> > please, stop saying you like the mockup.. it's just a screenshot ;) > your mockup is what i'm talking about, i think step by step we're > getting into business with this idea.. > > now remove the categories, as suggested above in the thread. > make the dialog, that pops up as you type, smart, i.e: > it learns what types of things the user tends to search for. > > instead of the existing categories, offer "photos", "music", "videos" > and "applications", if the user continues the dialog. i think we > should use the word dialog in its literal meaning here, the depth of > detail in which options and filters are displayed should grow with the > depth of steps the user is ready to make (all of them of course > augmented with the principles of incremental search) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
