Hush Button
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| Current Phase: | Research |
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| Engineers: | Colin Walters, Havoc Pennington, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Owen Taylor |
| Ethnographers: | Bryan Clark |
| Designers: | Bryan Clark, Mike Langlie |
| Multi-Disciplinary: | Donald Fischer |
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Stop the swarm notifications of links that people are no longer interested in
Research
Research is the current phase in this activity's design process
I went over to the red hat desktop crew yesterday to talk to them about Mugshot and watch them use it a little bit. I was able to talk with Ajax, John, Matthias, and Ray about the client.
They all said they liked it, it was a lot of fun; however it was extremely annoying at times. They related the annoyance to getting additional notifications about a swarm that they weren't interested in. They described their use in the following way.
See new link, decide based on title if it's worth going to. Either go to link and read it or ignore link and let it disappear. When at a link they are interested in they might start to chat about it assuming other people show up to talk. Otherwise they leave. The only time they want to return is when there is interesting chat around the link, i.e. the link is no longer an interesting object; only the people and chat.
Some other interesting things they said about the bubble in general.
- It would be nice if the bubble just stayed around a little longer as it showed people piling into the share.
Something progressing through the following from left to right
| Havoc | Havoc and Owen | Havoc, Donald, Marina, Walters, and Owen | 35 people |
Leaving it up a little longer would also give them more time to hit the (/) Hush button
- Once the chat happens they would like a way to be able to peak more into the chat to get a better sense of what is being said, where the conversation is going
- The "Who's there" isn't interesting at all anymore once an active chat is happening
Ideate
Ideate is the current phase in this activity's design process
So from that I figured that doing a per share hush [link swarm hush.jpg] was probably the best way to solve the issue they were having. On new shares there's no need to have this available since the share is just going to disappear anyway. On swarming shares it's necessary because the person might not want more information on the same link always appearing.
On the other end of the spectrum was people who wanted the link swarm thing to go away unless they were in the mood for interacting with it. I'm not sure that a global hush menu item will do what they're looking for, they may just want to quit the app and start it up later.
Prototype
Prototype is the current phase in this activity's design process
Here are my notebook sketches that I tried out on a couple of the people. The testers thought the individual hush could probably work out well for solving the problem of getting too many unwanted notifications.
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Mike and I made some mockups of different possibilities of total hush button options.
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More mockups from Mike showing the Hush / Ignore button positioning on an individual share.
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