Visit Our Project Home Page

Posts Tagged ‘human computer interaction’

Conversation Editing (Done?)

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I daresay Tommy and I wrapped up the conversation editing interface.  But who knows?  That’s the trouble with GUI-related endeavors: the goals of the endeavor are rarely clearly defined.  People usually say something like, “I want a graphical interface.  It should look pretty.  And, above all, users shouldn’t have trouble using it.”  But the idea of “looking pretty” is clearly subjective; and the idea of “users not having trouble” is something that’s hard to measure.  So how do you know when you’re done making a user interface?  You don’t.  There’s always something more you can do.  You can always make the interface a little more intuitive.

Nonetheless, I’m declaring the Conversation Editing Cycle complete.  If we get tons of negative feedback from our artists and other users, then perhaps we’ll tweak things.  But I personally think the interface is pretty slick.

Onwards and upwards!  (Physics?)