Behind the 1.8 scenes.
March 27th, 2007 by xamountDinah and I are IN THE THICK of it over here, so we don’t have time to do up a full blow-by-blow 1.8 design path review. But we do have a couple of whiteboard photos.
Some whiteboard activity was wiped clean before it could be photographed — the Gotta-Getta-Game concepts that got erased were superfun (at one point, you’d have been hard pressed to say one particular drawing wasn’t a bus). But a lot of things in 1.8 ended up going pretty cleanly from whiteboard to implementation anyway.
The naked, somewhat informative download process in 1.7:
The revised, more informative download process in 1.8:
Some of the minor points we worked through on this:
- How can we use SIMPLE MATH to show more info about a download in progress?
- “Get Game” vs. “Download Game”
- “Abort” vs. “Stop” vs. “Pause”
- “Continue in Background” vs. “Download in Background”
- What color is the background download-dot juice now that we don’t just have a full yellow dot?
My Playlists initial sketch:
Minor design points (and other stuff you might notice):
- “Favorites” vs. “My Games” vs. “My Playlists”
- The revised web/pdf all-purpose icon
- A couple of ideas for iconifying this very blog
- Blurry and cropped out bits (like I said: IN THE THICK)