pauleveritt/pyramid_bottlecap — Issue #11: Mockups on the "drawers" for Chatter, Radar
Author: pauleveritt
Created: 2011-12-21 21:44:10+00:00
State: open
Labels: popper

Today I showed Denys the prototypes we did for Chatter and Radar. We agreed on some things:

- The gear will remain styled as it is.

- We won't call that a "Quick Panel" anymore. It's just a dropdown menu. It's purpose is solely to provide more links related to the menu it is connected to. Definitely not to stay on screen and interact with.

- We'll call Chatter a "drawer". It pulls down without replacing the current screen, provides more real estate, and feels like a screen in the site that just so happens to be injected into the page. A drawer might be context-sensitive to the page that you are sitting on.

- Most likely, Chatter and Radar are both the same kind of thing, i.e. "drawer", just with different contents.

- A "drawer" and a "dropdown menu" should look and feel very different, because they are very different.

- A "drawer" might or might not look like other stuff in the site, that is the content area. Denys will make that decision and play with some ideas.

- We agree that the connector from the "Chatter" menu item to the drawer should be re-invented. It shouldn't be the aqua triangle, as that is confusing with the other triangle that remains.

This task does not necessarily ask for the details inside Chatter or Radar to be mocked up. Though you might tackle something like, a clear label called "Chatter" if it needs a heading, or a link called "close" to make it obvious how to dismiss it.