Interaction Design on the Portal

  

This is a set of three views.  A sample layout is shown below, with two modes displayed. The green, overlayed with ovlive, is the original layout. The olive is the view with focus on the lower left box -- corresponding to expanded state in the image above.



The point of all this is improve the expanded view of a of bookmarks in the bookmark portal ( ).  Some constraints and enablers:

• No traditional scrolling
• this is navigation not reading
• Primary goal is rapid navigation
• order by visit count
• decrement placement for recent visit?
• ideally we'd know visit frequency and modulate
  
• Don't move text while the user is reading it
• not unless you do it really well, typically timed presentation
  

Todo items:

• indicate scroll position
• order / reverse order by visit count
• promote container to root
• collapse folder and bring in another
• shuffle?
• spatial nav

It's a bit ironic to me that I'm crafting a custom scrollbar, after having railed about the usability flaws in numerous custom, and typically partially, implemented text reading scrollers in Flash.  My only defense is that this design is very task oriented.
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