A few comments on exits

[Susanne Lefvert]

I have changed the door icon to a smaller (but still very cute) image and
am trying to make the exits list more space efficient by having icon and
text next to each other instead of text being placed under icon.

I definitely think that we should try to figure out how users should be
able to find the venue they are looking for as easy as possible. However,
I personally have two concerns regarding the building of a UI map:

* In the real world, buildings etc are planned by an architect that
makes sure everything is going to be laid out properly. In our case we
have no rules on how to connect rooms to each other, it is a virtual
space, so mapping this in a UI will be hard. In the real world we can't
connect a room with 100 other rooms and expect it to work, as we can in
the virtual venue space.

* The dynamic nature of connections will make the creation of a map
difficult. The layout of rooms have to be made programmatically, and how
to make this look good, I don't know...

Susanne


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Terry Disz wrote:

> I don't find the exits list to be very efficient and it doesn't provide me
> with enough information.
> 
> The door thingy is cute, but takes up too much room. The vertical
> arrangement of door and name wastes space. There is no context provided, so
> I find it easy to be lost. I would like to see something that showed where I
> came from, and the ability to expand, like explorer, the next level exits in
> each exit so I could do a little look-ahead.
> 
> 
> Terry
> 
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