Activity Screen : Resize and Dragging

[Fania Jöck]

Hi,

I actually prepared some layouts for resizing and dragging of Boxes 
during our last workshop here in Darmstadt and forgot to share them.

DRAGGING BOXES
So for dragging the Box I suggest do use a color highlight, that 
actually show, where the box can be released, see scribble:
http://share.basyskom.com/contour/UIDesign/Contour_DragBox.jpg
Currently that feature uses a light transparent white area that is not 
well seen. I would suggest in using a real highlight color, that would 
be used consistently for:
- highlighting of resources (for example while the context menu is opened)
- highlighting of areas (like here for dragging boxes)
- highlight of icons (like the recommendation overlay when there are 
new, unread recommendations)
- highlight of selected items (for example in the add resource dialog)

This color highlight would help to focus the users attention on that 
current object, that needs to be manipulated, edited etc. With only 
white and transparent objects this is hard to achieve, in my opinion. 
Could we just choose a color here, that would be also part of the brand 
of Contour (we could actually also adapt the grey-ish Logo to that color 
then), or is there already some highlight color in Plasma?

RESIZING BOXES
For resizing of boxes, I think the user needs a little hint, that this 
feature is possible. Currently no test user got that feature, if he 
didnt watch it before. Normally the edges get just a small icon, that 
indicates the "grip", see scribble for two possible icons: 
http://share.basyskom.com/contour/UIDesign/Contour_ResizeBox.jpg. For me 
the first row with the little dots is a better symbol; the arrows 
indicate more an enlargement in 2 directions, but our feature currently 
supports only extension in a horizontal direction.

What do you think?
Cheerio,
Fania

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Fania Jöck
Interaction Designer

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