[MG] Votespace social map - layout stability

[Alexander Praetorius]

First:

What always annoyed me somehow is:

G/p/blabla

Or Do. Er. Fa. Mi. ..An. Ji. Th.

That's something I don't get and also I've looked up G/ stands for Global, I
forget it on a regular basis and have to look it up again ;)

Wouldn't it be possible to use real words? Maybe combined with Icons? Maybe
combined with onMouseOver-text with a short descrption?

These abbreviations really make it hard to read.

 

Second:

All nodes of the circular tree layout could also be little bubbles with a
diameter which corresponds to the percentage or absolute amount of votes
given by that bubble.

 

 

From: start-bounces at metagovernment.org
[mailto:start-bounces at metagovernment.org] On Behalf Of Thomas von der Elbe
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:16 AM
To: Metagovernment Project
Subject: Re: [MG] Votespace social map - layout stability

 

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 2:30, Michael Allan wrote: 

Here are a couple of ideas for showing the percentages (I agree
they're needed).  The first uses numeric labels:
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/crossforum/vote/_/1.xht
 
The second (attached) uses segmented needles.  Each full segment
represents 10%.  Labels would also be shown (much as above) but only
while hovering with the mouse:
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/crossforum/vote/_/1b.xht
 
Which seems better?  I prefer the second.


Its strange, but in the second version for my eyes the first and the third
largest look almost identical at first glance. It really took me a while to
realize, that the first largest has one segment more than the third. Maybe
thats just because of my eyes. But so I would prefer the first version,
which is really clear. (Plus, it also makes really clear for a first time
user, what the bars are about and that they are not some sort of strange
clock ;-)

Thomas






Thomas von der Elbe wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:40, Michael Allan wrote:

True, rank matters in the first circle. Here's one possibility:
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/crossforum/vote/_/1.xht
And with some more circles expanded:
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/crossforum/vote/_/3.xht
 
So instead of sorting the candidates and rotating the whole forest on
each rank change, this would only rotate the needle-indicators.  The
length of each needle is proportional to the number of votes held.

 

What do you think?

 
I think you are pretty smart! :-)
This way its even much better! You always find your end-candidate at 
first glance, because he stays were he always is, just the needle 
changes once in a while (maybe the needles could even have little 
numbers with percentage).
 
Thomas
 
 
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