Renaissance:Prototyping

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Prototyping

Prototyping phase II has ended.

Goal

Building a flexible framework for mid-fidelity prototyping to test promising UI designs with real users.

Team

• Andreas Bartel (andba) - User Experience Tech Lead for Project Renaissance
• Andre Fischer (Andre Fischer) - Developer
• Bernd Eilers (bei) - Developer
• Frank Loehmann (fl) - OpenOffice.org User Experience Project Lead

Prototype

Screencast	Live Prototype
The video testdrive on YouTube gives you a first impression what the prototype is about.	The latest prototype (v 0.18) runs on "live" your computer (Java 6 required).

Note: This mid-fidelity prototype has no polished UI design! Also the content of the toolbar section is not final nor complete. We just want to test interaction of the a possible UI with normal users. Therefore the prototype provides only limited functionality that allows us to run some tests in real live scenarios like creating a small presentation and doing some formatting.

Our page Frequently Asked Questions provides more information on what is prototyping.

Supported functionality in prototype

Tip: functional buttons in the toolbars show a green point in the lower right corner

• Loading ODP files from OOo (ODF)
• Load/Save own XML file format
• Main menu
• Slideable toolbar area
• Zoom slider
• New handles/ mode less rotation
• Insert
  • Bitmaps
  • Shapes
• Format (context sensitive like in StarOffice 4/5)
  • Border style
  • Border width
  • Character format (bold/italic/underlined)
  • Paragraph (left, right, centered, justified)
  • Color and gradient for
    • Fill
    • Border
• Design
  • Slide theming
  • Color theming
• Views
  • Normal
  • Sorter
  • 3D (i.e. on small devices)
  • Presentation mode
  • Notes window (at the bottom in normal view)
  • Slide preview (on the left in normal view)
• Direct object interaction for
  • Slides
    • Yellow circle: Slide/overview zoom
    • M: Live master mode switch
    • Copy/delete/duplicate

Progress / Mini-Minutes

Minutes...

Tasks to support

• Must have
  • insert slide (done)
  • delete slide (done)
  • duplicate slide (done)
  • change slide layout (done)
  • change slide design (done)
  • input text (done)
  • navigate through slides (done)
• Nice to have
  • insert image (done)
  • insert shape (done)
  • insert table
  • insert text field (done)
• If possible
  • modify image
  • modify shape (done)
  • modify table