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-Just finished with a two hour planning meeting for church. I’ve always heard the phrase – planning with a purpose. In the past, I would do this by filling in the known pieces and then trying to fit a purpose with what we planned. I watched a man today start with a list of purposes or goals. We plugged in the purposes to the calendar and then went back to plan an activity that accomplished that purpose. I’ve never done it way. Assuming that you could control most of the variables that was an awesome way to do it. However, if you can’t control the variables, it would be very frustrating. Either way, I really enjoyed watching a goal oriented person work a calendar to match purposes, interesting. -On the phone with Steve talking about interface and custom options. We talked about page specific settings. We also talked about options for buttons, icons and basic links. These seem to be different visual elements that we are using to link or help the user get around. -On custom user links, button and icons – it would be cool if when a user presses the show/hide menu we show the standard page menus and then break and show the custom settings for the user. -A great way to show a story with minimal words – the Disney move “UP” has a section that shows the main character growing up by showing different events over time. The section tells the entire story “key building points” without using any words. The adilas story has been unfolding for years; maybe we could help tell a number of different stories by using a similar concept. -What if we took each main piece or application player type and ran it through time. Almost a slide show or info-picture-time-line. -This is way more technical, but we actually have a full change log (what we did) for each page in the site. It might be kind of fun to show the progress and changes that were made and how it helps build the whole. -Along with showing the progression of each section, it might be cool to show underlying plans and brainstorming sheets or notebook pages (drawings, ideas, planning) dealing with changes that happened, almost scrapbook style. -Tell the story – not only about adilas but help our users tell the story about what is going on. The story may be more important than the numbers. -We just keep taking the next logical steps… -When laying out the steps – use a story board type approach. This is kind of like a map or visual journey. -Show me – don’t tell me! -On elements of time – what if we used three dots “…” to show a blocked in area or a time span. For example these spans or blocked in time slots would only show up if the end time was known. If not, it would just show up as a single line item and wouldn’t show any spans or blocked in areas. -Time and date spans need to be checked in both directions to make sure that we get the data that plays into that time slot and/or date in time. What starts before the known range and plays in? What starts in the known or unknown range and plays out or past? -On elements of time calendar view – be able to hide all other links and verbiage. |