[Sigia-l] Faceted classification browsing tool

[alfred]

I engaged an expert - my nine year old son. He thought it was interesting
enough that he asked me to install it on his computer.

There are a few problems with the interface ... the loopy back arrow isn't
obvious, moving your selection to the box up top, which you then click to
get it to move back to the main 'action pane' - also non-intuitive. When
my son got lost, he just clicked on the house and drilled back in...

Once you play with it - it's pretty straight forward. I do like the spiral
view of the book - it's just cool. I think for the audience they should
add more sound effects - subtle but present.

I would like to see the thumbnails slightly larger or clearer - it's hard
to tell what you're getting without committing to opening a book.

That's my .02 and my first post to this list ...

Alfred Werner
Thunderstick Software

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Boniface Lau wrote:

> > From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> > Behalf Of Christina Wodtke
> >
> > > http://www.icdlbooks.org/library/help/search_area.htm explains it.
> >
> >
> > writing in a giant font for children is like yelling to people to
> > don't speak English.
>
> And that is one of the drawbacks of overriding user's default font
> face and size.
>
>
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