On lör, 2004-06-12 at 15:04, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Hi!
Worked out a design for fan-sliders:
http://wrstud.urz.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-06-12_fan_slider_02.png
I wanted the whole slider to appear raised, emphasizing
it's clickable everywhere. Therefor the glass capsule
look serves a purpose, and is not just eye-candy.
The glass looks slippery. Maybe a bit of noise or a diamond-pattern
could make it look more rubbery and grab friendly?
The orange/yellow is supposed to give enough contrast in
brightness alone, and to give a feel of energy, without
being too agressive.
It looks like orange-juice ...
A tequila-sunrise style would be nice :)
First 3 sizes, to see how it looks like down to quadratic
for replacing small knobs (not sure about that).
The medium size looks just right. Easy to get at from all directions
without overshooting the mouse-pointer.
Then on mouse-over. It must be imediately clear, that
there is this functionality, and I hope this will make
noobs try what happens when moving the pointer towards
that area. Also doubles as alternative to the usual
highlighting for now.
This initial area fades out to the outside, as does
the part right of the pointer position when the pointer
is outside the main slider. This is for indicating that
you can always move farther outwards (well, screen
edges could be the limit, but shouldn't be, IMHO)
You'll have to move the pointer pretty far before getting the advantage
of say twice the precision. What if the fan expanded exponentially? The
idea being that the fan is slightly curved and tends to get closer to
the user.
mvh // Jens M Andreasen