[sldev] Re: Second Life User Experience

[Tim Shephard]

I think the key to the user interface is to have a beginner,
intermediate, and advanced mode.  The ability to switch to
intermediate from beginner should be easy to locate in the beginner
mode.

The beginner mode should be very very simple, probably about 35% of
what we currently see available.

Who has friends, people to IM to, reason to build, etc in beginner
mode?   SL can be very overwhelming and people should only be
overwhelmed when they want to - and then they can switch to a more
advanced mode.   The only button that I think really should be at the
bottom and which isn't is ... customize your avatar!

The number one thing all new players want to do yet oddly isn't listed there.

Anyways, good to hear a professional is on the job.

On 3/12/07, Kelly Washington <kelly at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
>  Hahah Jesse, I created that category (and moved the two issues there from
> where they were) just for an inventory design discussion.
>
>  A lot of the ideas make the UI more complex I think.  Add an option, a
> checkbox, a dialog etc etc.  Right now our inventory is already too
> complicated for new users with few items and not powerful enough for
> advanced users with thousands of items.  In the end we end up with an
> inventory that is not good for anyone.   At the same time, making it more
> complex, adding filters and links and more and more is not likely to make it
> really usable for anyone but the most hard core willing to wade through
> options and try everything until they get something that works.
>
>  I think something drastic is probably needed to make our inventory actually
> work, and I'd love to be part of a discussion about it.  I think we need
> less windows, less options.  We need better default behavior and we need
> slick UI that just works.
>
>  With the goal of a system that is more powerful, works how we expect and is
> easier for new users and old alike I have drafted an Inventory Design.  This
> was written from the top of my head this morning after watching this email
> thread, based on thoughts I already had.  Please feel free to tear it apart
> - on the Discussion page!  Please let me maintain the actual document, I
> will try to update it based on the discussion page.
>
>  I tried to make things simpler but I'm a victim of feature creep as much as
> anyone.  This is not an existing project, no Linden resources have been
> devoted to it (except for the morning I spent writing it).  Keep that in
> mind when discussing it.  :)
>
>   - Kelly
>
>  Jesse Nesbitt wrote:
>  > I agree, tags would be nice. Someone should write that up in the design
> discussions area of the wiki
> (https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Design_Discussions
> )
>  >
>  > On 3/12/07, *James W. Brinkerhoff* <jwb at paravolve.net
> <mailto:jwb at paravolve.net>> wrote:
>  >
>
> This sounds *GREAT*.   I'd love to ability to set 'tags' on inventory
>  items, as well as the standard creator, permissions, etc values..
>  You could then setup virtual folders based upon a simple query..
>  Much like gmail does for email...
>
>  -jwb
>
>  On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Mark Allen wrote:
>
>  > I would pay quite a bit of bounty for an inventory filter by
>  > content creator name too.
>
>  > And what would be the coolest thing of all is if we could have
>  > "virtual" folders like how
>  > Evolution has "v-folders" that can store one physical email in X
>  > arbitrary different
>  > methods, (some automatic, some user defined)
>
>  > One real object that could be stored in X arbitrary folders, even
>  > if it was no-copy.
>  > (I.e., these wouldn't be NEW copies of the content, just pointers
>  > to the original item)
>
>  > For example I have a prim hair I bought "Prim hair (blonde)"
>  > creator: Joe Bag-of-Donuts
>
>  > Would sort into
>
>  > auto folders:
>
>  > Received
>  >  +->3-12-07
>
>  > Creator
>  >  +->Joe Bag-of-Donuts
>
>  > And then, I could also have a user defined virtual folder named
>
>  > Hair
>  >  +->by Creator
>  >    +->Joe Bag-of-Donuts
>
>  >  +->by Style
>  >    +->Messy
>
>  >  +->by color
>  >    +->Blonde
>
>  >  +->by acquisition date
>  >    +->3/12/07
>
>  > I *guess* you can set this up now in SL, but it's a major major
>  > book keeping hassle.
>
>  > Mark
>
>  > --- Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com
> <mailto:secret.argent at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>  >>>> * Inventory becomes essentially unmanageable when you've been
>  >>>> around a while
>  >>>> and collected a lot. We need better organizing besides Folders/
>  >>>> Search
>  >>
>  >>> I really don't know what other way to display inventory aside from a
>  >>> straight tree structure.
>  >>
>  >> Even if you leave that structure in place:
>  >>
>  >> Need: Open folder in new tab.
>  >>
>  >> Need: Open filter in new tab.
>  >>
>  >> Don't throw the folders around as quickly when dragging.
>  >>
>  >> Don't move the scroll bar when dragging an item out of the folder
>  >> window to the right.
>  >>
>  >> When I close a folder, then close the inventory window, then open the
>  >> inventory window again, why does that folder open again?
>  >>
>  >> When I clear the search box, why doesn't the selection stay in view?
>  >>
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