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R2D2 · 07-25-2006, 10:12 AM

AUDIO

* giving synthetic audio feedback for page flips, which are already acompanied by a "natural" mechanic sound does not make much sense and abuses design philisophy...

SCRIBBLING

* erasing simply turns black lines into white lines, which is not such a good idea if you are drawing on images...
* PEN pressure is useless, as is the eraser button (is it one?) on the pen. Which is rather stupid from an ergonomic point of view...

FOLDER NAVIGATION

* I still cannot go directly back to the folder I came from when I am viewing a document.
* for productive use I need more file information than is shown at the moment

PDF VIEWER

* Viewing password protected PDF leads to a never ending loading progress bar. Only activating the keyboad by chance will bring up the password dialog, which is resized to fullscreen and therefore pretty unergonomic

USER INTERFACE / DESIGN

* While having a progress indicator during loading of documents is a good idea, using the page indicators for it is a bad idea from a design point of view. It does not make much sense and abuses a rather good design philipsophy of viewing the page numbers. Do not spoil a good design by quick and dirty workarounds which are in danger to become permanent ones...

* Using a dark boot up screen is not very E-Ink like. The big advantage of E-Ink is it's high contrast. So why not using som elegant black on white calligraphics or something like that, which harmonizes good with the design of the user interface?

* Using expanding and collapsing sub menus (scribble) is not harmonizing with a low fps screen. Do it a different way, please!

DEVICE SETTINGS

* no dialog for setting the date and time

07-25-2006, 10:12 AM	#11
R2D2 Mad Scientist Posts: 294 Karma: 242 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Germany Device: Zaurus, HTCMagician, iLiad	AUDIO * giving synthetic audio feedback for page flips, which are already acompanied by a "natural" mechanic sound does not make much sense and abuses design philisophy... SCRIBBLING * erasing simply turns black lines into white lines, which is not such a good idea if you are drawing on images... * PEN pressure is useless, as is the eraser button (is it one?) on the pen. Which is rather stupid from an ergonomic point of view... FOLDER NAVIGATION * I still cannot go directly back to the folder I came from when I am viewing a document. * for productive use I need more file information than is shown at the moment PDF VIEWER * Viewing password protected PDF leads to a never ending loading progress bar. Only activating the keyboad by chance will bring up the password dialog, which is resized to fullscreen and therefore pretty unergonomic USER INTERFACE / DESIGN * While having a progress indicator during loading of documents is a good idea, using the page indicators for it is a bad idea from a design point of view. It does not make much sense and abuses a rather good design philipsophy of viewing the page numbers. Do not spoil a good design by quick and dirty workarounds which are in danger to become permanent ones... * Using a dark boot up screen is not very E-Ink like. The big advantage of E-Ink is it's high contrast. So why not using som elegant black on white calligraphics or something like that, which harmonizes good with the design of the user interface? * Using expanding and collapsing sub menus (scribble) is not harmonizing with a low fps screen. Do it a different way, please! DEVICE SETTINGS * no dialog for setting the date and time Last edited by R2D2; 07-25-2006 at 10:17 AM.