Voice (and Video)
Shawn Khan
shawn.khan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 16:24:27 UTC 2011
Hello George,
There is only one issue that I have and maybe I am not looking at this
right. The message part of the window, is this able to be enlarged if I am
in fullscreen video? I would maybe like to see 5 or 6 lines of text at one
point or maybe 10 lines.
Thanks,
Shawn
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Håvard Pedersen <fuzzy76 at fuzzy76.net> wrote:
> It looks very configurable, while keeping the number of buttons to a
> minimum. I like it. :) It might feel a bit chaotic because of all the
> possibilities, but that is difficult to know for sure until there is a
> prototype to try.
>
> Håvard Pedersen
> http://fuzzy76.net/
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 23:19, George Lambrou <georgelambrou721 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey all. I tried to take some of the ideas presented in last week's
>> discussion and combine them into a single, hopefully intuitive whole. I made
>> a diagram to explain everything, and included it (as well as all of the
>> mockups I made in the process) in the attached archive. Some notes about the
>> diagram:
>>
>>
>> - The whole system is based around dragging the video preview to
>> various areas of the message window in the centre of the page.
>> - The blue areas in the message window represent docking zones;
>> dropping the preview outside of the blue areas but still within the view
>> results in Bubble Mode.
>> - The docking zones are not visible to the user.
>> - The circular ends of the blue arrows represent where the user docks
>> the video in the message view.
>> - The main controls appear on the video preview's hover (shown in
>> diagram); the hide preview button only appears on the outgoing preview's
>> hover.
>> - Docking to the side should expand the window horizontally to
>> accommodate the preview, without altering the size of the message view (no
>> mockup for this yet); given the limited vertical real-estate of most laptop
>> screens, I don't think this should apply to top and bottom docking.
>> - In case it's not too clear, dropping the preview outside of the
>> message view spawns a separate window for the video chat (I've put a button
>> for un/re-docking on the control bar as well).
>> - Full and Windowed modes use full-size control bars, Docked and
>> Bubble modes use miniatures.
>> - The click and drag in the Bubble Mode diagram represents a resize
>> (effects are reversible by resizing back down).
>> - When entering a message in full mode, leaving the focus of both the
>> message bar *and* the message view retracts the message view again.
>>
>>
>> As usual, all thoughts, comments, etc. that you can offer are appreciated;
>> thank you again for considering my work.
>>
>> George Lambrou
>>
>>
>>
>
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