Re: [LogiLogi-list] search/browsing UI

> All,
> 
> I've just made some work over the browsing/searching interfase. Sorry
> I couldn't be so simplistic to just type text in, but I needed to put
> things there to start reducing the elements at sight, and I think I
> succeeded in part.

Ok, agree. Especially as we largely agree on what's to be in there...

(apart from some minor things maybe, like tabs :)

What I like is that you removed the power from the peergroup-selection
and the matches here, as indeed this is no relevant info when browsing
:)

> You'll find two new proposals here.

Hm, I only found one, also no layers in the file..?

> The search/browsing. This are the two known approaches to knowledge
> finding and I thought we should have them side by side. Also I started

Love this, the tabs for searching and browsing! :)

But maybe we can add Logi too, as there will be contenders too then
and it seems reasonable to me to keep the query around when clicking
into a logi.

> questioning how we would handle (with the search on top right) when we
> did a text search, what where we going to do with the tag search? I
> thought this was going to be a problem, and this solution I think is a
> good one, we could even save tag-browsing while on text-search.

Agree :)

> The other suggestion is menues next to the title, as this would reduce
> visual elements and still have them handy on just mouse over.

I think this is a bit a weird approach, having the main menu in a
drop-down. Also it might confuse users as they would not know where
they are relative to other pages...

I got a small suggestion for this further in this mail.

> Also, while there is a lot of design, this is just a quick display of
> the elements. Also this elements are the basics and with them we can
> quickly do the rest of the pages displays.

Good, I like many things from this design, for example also the minus
and plus signs behind the tags, for adding and removing them; well
done, and real teamwork :)

(I moved the minus-sign in the icons behind the tags a bit more to the
center, and I removed them from the tags in the snippet as, from how I 
understand they are not meanth to be removed from there if I'm right.
These are small fixes to the tag_browsing_draft.svg)

Besides this in another file I've done some small re-arrangements and 
tweaks this morning, and committed it as UI_proposal_Tags3_Search_View
in docs.

The most important improvements / changes are that it is a bit more 
spacious, that the peergroup selector is now inside the line around
the tag-browsing, that the textfield for manually adding tags is
behind the tags, and suggested is a "two-stage tabs dashboard", really
nifty :)

I've not added any coloring yet, but made some differences with
grayscales, much like in the tag_browsing_draft. And the
UI_proposal_Tags3_Search_View is a draft too of course... But the
designs are already becoming better :)

Wybo

> Have to go now, talk to all tomorrow.

'k I will do some more back-end work untill we meet again this
afternoon / night... Really looking forward to your comments :)

> -- 
> Bruno