Windows Mobile: Another Imagemap Navigation Experiment - Take 2

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• Anonymous
  July 05, 2007
  Ok, it's a little less legible (sigh) but at least it's all visible! I like the fact that the tool tips give you a hint as to what a topic or section is about before you click.

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2007
  As a smart person once said, anything with pictures is good. Or something like that. I think that you are on to something. It is a lot on a page and you have to avoid looking like one of those spaghetti diagrams that Tufte disciples like to lampoon. And, really, how often does anyone get to lampoon. I think cartographers have a similar problem. How many colors do you need to draw a political map of the world. For some reason, (trivial pursuit?) I think the answer is five. In other words, my eyes...they burn. But I like the idea. You have a navigable image that captures the big ticket items. Or so it would seem looking at the diagram without a lot of mobile knowledge. (or stationary knowledge some might say.)

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2007
  Here's the big question to any Windows Mobile developers out there: If I prettied this up and put it into the SDK on MSDN, would you use it?

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2007
  Those at-a-glance pics are really helpful, not only for beginners. Take this for example: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/ The answer is yes, I'd be happy to use it.

• Anonymous
  July 06, 2007
  Hi Maciej - I like the Sun one. Packs a lot in there. It seems to be architectural in nature, whereas Windows Mobile isn't - it's more a collection of technologies built on a layer that isn't exposed.

• Anonymous
  July 06, 2007
  Some suggestions I've received thus far:

• Fix the spacing, design and typographical errors.

• Don't use so many colours!

• Make use of colour, for example, grouping similarly graphically related items in shades of blue, getting started and tools in shades of red, and so on.

• Anonymous
  July 18, 2007
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