[wdmmg-discuss] Summary of phone chat today on user journeys and dashboard

Mon May 31 15:36:09 UTC 2010

This is a summary of chat today involving: Alistair Turnbull, Rufus
Pollock, Liz Turner and Dave Boyce.

Worked through: <http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Where_Does_My_Money_Go/User_Journeys>

### ACTIONS

  * (ticket #394) DB: mockup/prototype daily bread over next week
(rapid iteration)
  *  LT to develop user journey from daily bread to and from Financial
bubbles (and rest of dashboard)
  * (ticket #395) DB: start on mockup/prototype of bubbles v2 over
next week (rapid iteration)
  * (ticket #396) DB/LT: look at moving to more of the app template
into the HTML surround
  * ACTION: RP/DM provide illustrator files and sans-serif
  * ACTION: LT to look at ways in which this can be used to integrate
other models from dashboard into compar-o-tron
  * (ticket #397) ACTION: AT to detail comment api/spec
    * Look at Disqus: not suggest integrating but just look at it as an api
  * (ticket #398) ACTION: DB/LT to write up commenting use cases
  * ACTION: AT/RP continue on major backend changes and data loading

### Daily Bread

  * see comments to DM from RP now integrated into
<http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Where_Does_My_Money_Go/User_Journeys>
  * select salary slider may be too small/not prominent enough
  * what are the dynamics/interactivity?
  * font issues ... (serif fonts on screen may be a problem)
  * ACTION (ticket #394) DB: mockup/prototype daily bread over next
week (rapid iteration)
  * ACTION: LT to develop user journey to and from Financial bubbles
(and rest of dashboard)

### Financial bubbles:

  * showing labels (non-overlapping) -- general issue and one we
haven't solved perfectly yet
  * doing more diving into breakdowns ... (does not always have to be
in the same hierarchy e.g. can be cofog x region; how to use POG?)
  * arbitrary axes for breakdowns ...
  * zooming in to lower levels: issue fitting bubbles so could slide
the bubbles round the ring and hide bubbles?
  * second set of lines (there to make it easier to compare sizes) but
is it visual noise

### Compar-o-tron

  * At the moment, compar-o-tron 1 is probably using wrong axes
(should be region A vs region B with breakdown by function)
  * compar-o-tron: agreed that one wants to be able to have more than 1 bubble
  * want to be select anything for comparison (not just cofog items for example)
  * agreed: icons are great
  * ACTION: LT to look at ways in which this can be used to integrate
other models from dashboard.

### Search

  * need to integrate search everywhere!

### Comments

  * Dashboard in html page: yes!
  * Comments should go in html page ...
  * Comments on views versus comments on data (aggregations and ATPs)
    * Attaching comments to dashboard views
    * Do we really want to comment at a very low level of granularity?
Not sure yet.
    * Need to establish a commnications api for comments
  * Implementation details: ajax communication?
  * Look at methods of commenting on data items via visualizations
(annotation mechanism?)
  * ACTION: AT to detail comment api/spec
    * Look at Disqus: not suggest integrating, what is flash api for commenting
  * ACTION: DB/LT to write up commenting use cases