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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

and the clock is shown in the top right, but it doesn't necessarily have to
be shown there, and having it in a larger font (but still small) would
increase 'at a glance' readability. The current welcome screen duplicates
the clock anyways, so why is that an issue?


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In all cases (including keeping the current welcome screen), what if
>> swiping up from the bottom of the welcome screen took the user directly
>> into the camera, since it isn't being used for anything else on the welcome
>> screen? Facebook phone took a severe beating from the media for having no
>> quick access to the camera.
>
>
> I don't agree with this. There are already enough swipe gestures. Add
> another outcome to an already existant swipe gesture would be confusing.
>
> Isn't the clock shown at the top right?
>
> Zisu Andrei
>
>
> On 17 June 2013 20:41, Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Interesting topic. I'm no designer, but have thought a bit about this too,
>> lately.
>>
>> On Monday 17 June 2013 11:17:13 Josh Leverette wrote:
>> > Ok, I'll be bluntly honest about this. I've lately begun to wonder if
>> the
>> > Welcome screen at current is even worthwhile. From a pragmatic
>> perspective,
>> > it provides only *useless information* to the user. Or, *Information
>> which
>> > would never be acted on, under normal circumstances.* The number of
>> tweets,
>> > emails, etc. that you've produced throughout whatever time period will
>> have
>> > zero impact on anything you do on a daily basis, if ever.
>>
>> I think the plan is to have a set of configurable sources for the
>> infographics.
>> Without knowing where exactly it will go, I think there are some
>> interesting
>> use cases for it. I for one would find it nice to have these informations
>> in
>> there:
>>
>> - Number of missed/unread events. This aggregates emails/sms/ims/followed
>> tweets/whatever into one number. The colored bubbles on the outside could
>> act
>> like a clock and indicate the rough time when the event happened,
>> assigning a
>> different color to each service type. That would allow you to immediately
>> see
>> what you've missed judging by the colors if its worth looking at.
>>
>> - Gimmicks like fitbit statistics, newsticker, maybe sports ticker.
>>
>> - maybe a weatherforecast showing the upcoming weather in the colored
>> bubbles.
>>
>> All in all I think there are cool things possible with it. I agree with
>> you
>> that more recent or even future data seems more useful than statistics of
>> the
>> last month(s)
>>
>> >
>> > If the user wants to adorn their welcome screen with aesthetically
>> pleasing
>> > artwork, they should just have the option of throwing an awesome
>> wallpaper
>> > up. From a design standpoint, I'd also wonder if it might look better to
>> > just place the time and date in a small, elegant, and unobtrusive font
>> on
>> > the bottom left hand corner of the welcome screen and leave the rest of
>> it
>> > clean and empty to showcase the user's chosen artwork... that is, if the
>> > user has elected not to show any of the active information I'm about to
>> > mention next.
>>
>> Yes, I share the opinion that it should be possible to hide it from there.
>> Haven't put much thought into alternatives.
>>
>> > Would it be possible for the welcome screen to provide a quick view of
>> the
>> > weather (maybe *make *the welcome screen wallpaper a(n animated) graphic
>> > depiction of the weather, and perhaps annotate some data about the
>> weather
>> > as well) and/or give an interactive view of unread notifications.
>> >
>> > In all cases (including keeping the current welcome screen), what if
>> > swiping up from the bottom of the welcome screen took the user directly
>> > into the camera, since it isn't being used for anything else on the
>> welcome
>> > screen? Facebook phone took a severe beating from the media for having
>> no
>> > quick access to the camera.
>>
>> There is quick access to the camera through the left edge using the
>> launcher.
>> That also works when the greeter is there.
>>
>>
>> What I miss the most, and dont even have an idea how to combine with the
>> current infographic, are media control buttons for the music player -
>> given
>> that listening to music is my main use case for the mobile phone.
>>
>> Br,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
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Sincerely,
    Josh