tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post2888812441519402510..comments2024-03-21T00:31:01.553-07:00Comments on Value through design: To evolve, or not to evolve?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16350925349952231463noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-68137476504638053102015-03-15T01:03:50.585-07:002015-03-15T01:03:50.585-07:00Hi Chris,
That's the fundamental danger in do...Hi Chris,<br /><br />That's the fundamental danger in doing short term user testing on a product that is intended for frequent and long term use (phones, tablets). <br /><br />On the bright side, there's still some Sailfish DNA left, so I guess it could've gone all the way of having a back and home buttons :P<br /><br />Take care :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16350925349952231463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-5462387498553062102015-03-14T06:10:10.377-07:002015-03-14T06:10:10.377-07:00Hi Jaakko,
Thanks a lot for your answer. I alread...Hi Jaakko,<br /><br />Thanks a lot for your answer. I already guessed that people voted for this new UI because it is more Android like and people almost always choose what is familiar even if it is less relevant.<br />I am planning to write a post on Jolla.together.com regarding Androidification of Sailfish OS with 2.0 version.<br /><br />Thx again,<br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-60911105562538907302015-03-10T10:23:12.438-07:002015-03-10T10:23:12.438-07:00Hi Chris,
We had several prototypes and let peopl...Hi Chris,<br /><br />We had several prototypes and let people vote what they preferred. I can't remember the exact behavior of those prototypes since I was doing other things, but people voted for the version demonstrated at MWC.<br /><br />I think people liked it as it resembled more android and it got chosen. Again, I don't know the exact reasons it was selected.<br /><br />However, I'm sure the app closing can still be arranged as the work progresses. I'm also sad to see cover actions go, but let's see if the partner space customization can make up for that.<br /><br />Sorry for my late reply, thanks for commenting and take care :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16350925349952231463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-84319816104711912042015-03-06T05:10:41.501-08:002015-03-06T05:10:41.501-08:00Hello,
In SFOS 2.0 very sad to see cover actions ...Hello,<br /><br />In SFOS 2.0 very sad to see cover actions swipes and swipe from top to close apps and lock device disappear (two of my preferred features over other OSs). <br />Hope we could get an option to replace de profile drawer with close app and lock device as it is now.<br /><br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-41905642528755920622015-03-03T01:06:09.980-08:002015-03-03T01:06:09.980-08:00Absolutely, doing my part in reminding the industr...Absolutely, doing my part in reminding the industry about that :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16350925349952231463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-54189837959928551632015-03-01T17:15:49.169-08:002015-03-01T17:15:49.169-08:00Yes, a dinosaur (dino = terrible, sauria = lizard)...Yes, a dinosaur (dino = terrible, sauria = lizard) can evolve and became a bird.<br />However, please, do also something for stopping the growth of smartphone's screens!Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00765221180252564953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841610225865274585.post-20607419710519147752015-03-01T08:05:56.282-08:002015-03-01T08:05:56.282-08:00Hello Jaakko,
Talking of evolution, will Sailfish...Hello Jaakko,<br /><br />Talking of evolution, will Sailfish be ready to evolve from an application based paradigm to something else ?<br />As you say for other themes (like clickable buttons coming for mouse based computing), applications are also a remaining of the desktop computer era.<br /><br />If I take my own usage of the phone, I see that apps doesn't fit a perfect user experience.<br />Apps divide the contents in several chunks, when it doesn't need to be.<br /><br />Several examples:<br />* I never access the contact app directly, but I reach its contents through the call, mail or sms app, where I actually need it.<br />* I the twitter notification you can see images. But you have about no option to do anything with them, whereas in the gallery app also intended to do things about images, you can do a lot.<br />* In mails, twitter, or some other app, you can have to open web pages, or documents (pdf for example), which let you go to the web browser, having to switch back to the other app when done, breaking the flow (for example, going back to the twitter notification page, requires to launch event view, click twitter, then scroll back to where your were reading...)<br /><br /><br />In programming, we usually use the MVC scheme : Model/View/Controller. The model is the raw data (being mails, sms, webpage contents, images...), the view is the way to show them on screen (the UI part), and the controller the glue between them. The good point is that several view can show differently the data from the same model, and a view can show things from several models.<br /><br />From this idea, we should break apps, to models (one for each of SMS, mails, twitter, gallery, music, ...), and views (video player, image viewer, web viewer, pdf viewer, map viewer). <br />The OS would then have to orchestrate all those data to provide a simple way to go through the contents of the models, with a good user experience and not the flow breaking change of apps.<br /><br />We already see some work done in this direction in low level stuff (like tracker producing a model of all resources available, like music, which can then be shown in a media player app), but it is far from complete, and I don't see a real movement at the high level to go to this. Maybe Blackberry's hub is the best example to it (I don't know it very well but heard a lot of praise for it), but still only about general messaging, not all contents<br /><br />There are still some contents that would have to be launch by some way (a game for example), but most of the apps still share something at one point.<br /><br />You can find a related talk from Akademy 2013 by KDE's usability team, to switch from application, to task centric approach (called flow here). The 10 first minutes are the one that matters (it is an implementation example then) : http://files.kde.org/akademy/2013/videos/Thomas_Pfeiffer,_Bjorn_Balazs_-_Computer,_I%27d_like_to_write_a_summary_of_this_meeting.webm<br /><br />Keep up the good work !<br /><br />ZetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com