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by monopede 5387 days ago
Sorry to break the stream of cheers, but I have my concerns about this design. Yes, it's a neat idea and already quite well-implemented. Looking at the video I can't help but feel confused. Sometimes things seem to resize randomly (at places where there is no cursor shown -- is there an input not shown?) and I have my doubts what "normal" users would do. I strongly recommend that you do grab a few people with medium technical background and ask them to perform a few tasks and then just observer (no helping). That should quickly tell you where (if) people get lost. Good work overall, but keep refining.
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Upcoming this weekend, I just finished the app so far last night, but I'm also very curious how people are going to interact and understand the interface. Concerning the random resizing, I mentioned it in another comment, it's one of the very subtle things that has to be done exactly right, otherwise it creates this awkward 'what the hell is going on' impression. I'm definitely on this :-)