Dive site management on daily build 4.4.2.669

Davide DB dbdavide at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 08:36:31 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:09:19AM +0200, Davide DB wrote:
>> >> Even knowing that to change current dive you click on the dive list,
>> >> our eyes were drawn upwards on the dropbox.
>> >> Given that actions on that control are very important I would avoid it.
>> >
>> > I'm not quite sure why the dropdown menu is so distracting :-D
>>
>> These heatmap shows where user's attention lingers the longest:
>>
>> https://cdn.tutsplus.com/webdesign/uploads/legacy/022_F_Layout/heatmap.jpg
>>
>> http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/91/images/eyetracking_corporate_site_about_us.png
>>
>> This is a good article on it.
>> http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/91/eyegaze.asp
>>
>> Most concepts are valid for traditional UI too.
>
> I don't see us having the resources to do an eye tracking study anytime
> soon. But I understand your point.
>
>> Actually even if the user do not care about dive site, the magical
>> dive site soldier acts in background.
>
> Let me translate this back into Italian to see if I can understand it
> then.... nope, still don't understand the sentence :-)

Don't care, I'm not able to explain :)

>> Ok you bought me.
>
> BTW - English idioms... "you bought me" means that I paid you money to do
> something. To change your mind, to provide services, etc. I think you
> might mean "you sold me on this", as in "I convinced you of my opinion".
> :-D

Ouch!!!
Sorry, the important thing is that you understood me



>> Habemus Papam
>
> Not quite sure it's a Holy Father just yet, but I think we are making
> progress understanding how the user interaction should work. Now we need
> to get Tomaz to implement this :-)


I'll keep my finger crossed


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Davide
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