nice.

is also fun to click "pulse" like mad! :)



From: christian.giord...@canonical.com
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:14:54 +0000
To: m...@ubuntu.com
CC: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

Here a quick Flash (booo) prototype showing the connection that we could have 
between the knight rider bar and the progress of the process. Every time the 
process progresses it could send a pulse event to the bar (emulated in the 
prototype by a click on the "pulse" button). There is a maxmium speed the bar 
can reach and if there is no activity the bar slows down until it stops.


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2935618/canonical/indeterminate-progress/index.html 
(the progress bar is over a Libre Office tile in the middle of the Launcher)



Cheers, chr

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Christian Giordano 
<christian.giord...@canonical.com> wrote:


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote:



Going deeper: what matters with these numbers is not the number itself, but the 
*change* in the number. Think of any example, like the number of updates to an 
app. What matters is that you've gone from zero to 3 or from 2 to 6. Going from 
13226 to 14323 isn't at all interesting.






So, we shape the system not for "mathematical accuracy" but for "eyeball 
relevance". If you've got big numbers dancing around, this mechanism is not the 
mechanism you want to be using. That knowledge allows us to do better design 
for the cases where it *is* the right mechanism.



I wonder if we really need to redesign a hourglass (nightmare from the past: 
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&biw=1920&bih=1083&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=hourglass+pointer&oq=hourglass+pointer&aq=f&aqi=g1g-mS2&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=20420l20420l0l20747l1l1l0l0l0l0l67l67l1l1l0&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5i24l2.20420l20420l0l20747l1l1l0l0l0l0l67l67l1l1l0
 ).



I reckon progress bars and spinners are the more elegant evolution. At the 
moment, when a gtk progress bar doesn't know the end, we have this continuos 
pulsing (Knight Rider) animation. If this animation was more tight to the 
actual progress it wouldn't be much different than an increasing number, would 
it?




Best, chr



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