[Clipart] Some thoughts on the browsing interface

[Jon Phillips]

That is a great idea. I wonder how efficient the left hand menu is and
if it might be better to have a horizontal menu at top to make clear the
hierarchy from top to bottom. Also, then if there are too many
categories, a second level of menu could be printed as well. What d'ya
think? Something about the current layout of the browser seems
counterintuitive. Once we have images immediately in the browser, I
think things will become clearer.

Jon


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 06:56, Alberto Simões wrote:
> To have all images shown is not a good solution. I think that what I
> can do to help with the complain that there is only scorpion, is to
> add a number right to the category with the number of images on that
> category.
> 
> So, for example, animals can say 
> 
>    Animals (20)
> 
> When entering animals, see the scorpion an the menu saying
> 
>    Insects (9)
>    Mammals (5)
>    Fish (5)
> 
> That can help the user to understand that the scorpion is not the only
> animal we have.
> 
> Cheers.
> Alb
> 
> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:51:02 +0300, Nicu Buculei <nicu at apsro.com> wrote:
> > Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> > > Carl Worth <cworth at east.isi.edu> writes:
> > >>Instead, I think the browse interface should present images in all
> > >>of their parent categories as well. This way, the categorization
> > >>would provide a way to filter the results, rather than a way to show
> > >>new images.
> > >
> > >
> > > I *don't* think you'd want to browse through eleven hundred animal
> > > images, then click on "birds" only to find eighty of the same images.
> > > Even worse, if you're looking for a specific type of animal that's not
> > > a bird nor a mammal nor any of the other subcategories, you don't want
> > > to have to look through all eleven hundred animal images.
> > 
> > if browsing was done using keywords, a bird, say "puffin" would have
> > multiple keywords, like: "animal", "bird", "puffin" and it will be shown
> >   in the results for a search on every of those keywords, why not do the
> > same using directories?
> > 
> > > I think a better approach would be to add a folder icon for each
> > > subcategory to the results for the category, to make it more
> > > blindingly obvious that there are subcategories with more images, so
> > > that the user doesn't draw the mistaken conclusion that the images
> > > standing loose in the parent category are the only ones.
> > 
> > yes, this is a good approach and i also proposed something similar some
> > time ago
> > 
> > --
> > nicu
> > 
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