Re: [Help-liquidwar6] Work in progress, again

[Christian Mauduit]

I really like this one: http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/264/lw6androidx4.jpg

It requires a little extra development to display the map in the little box on
the bottom right, but this could in turn be used, for instance, to display the
"character" associated to a color when choosing a team. What do you think?

I note your remark about not being able to move mouse on a menu item without
clicking on it. What alternative can we have? Have an intermediate screen? Or
maybe present "up/down" buttons next to the "back" button, or maybe more at
the bottom (I suspect buttons on top are cumbersome for your hand hides the
screen if your finger is on top).

Have a nice day,

Christian.

> 2011/12/13 Christian Mauduit <address@hidden>
>
>> As a side note, if we want to anticipate usage on smartphones, we need
>> to have a *bigger* font for menus, I think. I might be wrong, but I
>> suspect in your screenshots it's quite small for a 3.5 inches display.
>> OTOH the help/tooltips/breadcrumbs need not be very big, if one misses
>> the information it's not that bad, after all, a few weeks ago it didn't
>> even exists. I'm opened to suggestions.
>>
>
> Yup, that's correct! I was a bit nerveous about this, because giant menus
> easily ends up looking a bit silly. But  I have finally tried recreating
> the menu at 320x480 pixels, which is my phones resolution. (3.2 inch HVGA)
> I have used a fixed text size. This isn't a must, but it's an easy way to
> use the space effectively. We could also let the interactive items (menu
> items) be larger.
>
> SIDE BY SIDE:
> http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/410/lw6small.jpg
>
> SINGLE IMAGES:
> http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3280/lw6androidx1.jpg
> http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4258/lw6androidx2.jpg
> http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5263/lw6androidx3.jpg
> http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/264/lw6androidx4.jpg
>
> The text needs to be large enough to be readable. Also, the menu items
> needs to be large enough for the fingers. As it is, the menu items has
> roughly the same distance as the keys on my vertical on-screen keyboard.
> Not perfect, but okay.
>
> One thing to note about smartphones is that the user don't have any cursor.
> Touching the screen is akin to hovering the mouse over the item and
> left-clicking. So you cannot hover the cursor over the menu item to preview
> the map or get information from the info area at the lover part of the
> screen.
>
>  - Kasper
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