Just seen this in the guidelines for doing Windows 7 interfaces.
I use EA mainly on a tablet computer; pen flicks can be used to scroll diagrams for example. With a mouse, flicks are quite hard to perform so I understand I'm in a minority...
Imagine...... ya flicks the package icon in ya tool kit, the package tool launches itself accross to the currently active diagram, bounces off the diagram frame, ya then hovers ya pen where youi want to place it on the diagram.... perhaps a little shudder and flop.
Using Windows 7 applications, should engender joy and aim to delight and amuse the Windows user.
After it's flopped, EA should promt for a name. Voice Recognition.
Quadrant would then enable you to call up a model, and change the workflow associated with the gesture. The change is then immeadiately reflected in the running application. On the Go Changing.
It would be really usefull to have inertia built into the EA Ui.... after a while EA users will notice that there's an implied 3D aspect to the interface which is not being exploited. But then even after sharing at and manipulating, sequence diagrams; the howl for animation is like deafeningly abscent.
We gonna use both animation and inertia aware instances in the simulator. Visual Observation of models ( gonna include UML Models of course... but ya can define ya own XMI to Codename Repository "Oslo" parsers ) will be how potential consumers will evaluate your solutions.
What do your models look like when running...
What do your users look like while they are using your product.
Windows 7 really wants to enthrall you, just for a moment.
Just a stream of happy clickers, webcams feeding realtime user reactions into your simulation ... they hate using it; no ones using it; they are fighting each other; It's been nicked...
Kevin
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Perhaps.
