UX meeting 20190117

Logistics

Time

17:00-17:30 UTC

Attending

PARTY!! 🎉 @ninavizz, @redshiftzero, @eloquence, @kev, @nightwarrior, @harris, @kushal

Place

https://meet.jit.si/QuickWizardsDanceHigh

Agenda

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• Nina: Review general visual design progress on the Workstation client
• Nina: Review ideas to address Workstation needs outlined in #28 and #29

Notes

• Nina shared 2 new VisDe mockups as updates from the last review with Erik, nicknamed David Bowie and Elton John
  • Consensus among attendees was a preference for Elton John, despite Nina having more warm-fuzzies for David Bowie... but the critiques were entirely valid, and we don't want SD to look like a Slack wannabe.
  • Erik flagged complexities around progress bar things.
    • Nina clarified intent of long-horizontal animated bar (pink or teal) at the top, citing the Medium.com pattern that it's simply a generic network-activity animation untied to performance or any task progress.
    • Nina also added in desire to have proper progress-bars at some point, for file downloads, but that those would be separate and done inline with the file in the UI.
    • Note: Because animations in prototypes are a bit of a PITA and were a low priority to get spot-on correct, I also did not prioritize 1:1 implementation of that animation in the Studio Prototype that shows loading animations. Just FYI.
• Discussion had around Messaging Exploration and communicating network logjams stuff to users.
  • Nina points to new Tor onion/kbS metric in shared mockups, with possible dropdown; would only be shown when in "Online" mode.
  • Nope, not possible for the SD-Workstation VM to have the Whonix VM do things with Tor (such as circuit updates or rebooting the whole VM, boo!)
  • Yep, a "Network Health" indicator could be possible, but it would not be dynamic as the iStats Bar upstream/downstream thingy is.