[Yourtopia] Modified ui draft: index creation with manipulation of sub-sliders

Mon Apr 16 09:31:15 BST 2012

Hi everybody!

Only Dirk has answered my question about priorities. Thus the result
is: A solution for manipulation of index proxies (individual variables
behind the categories like environment) is more important now than
display of a "all users index" now. Dirk is right, we will collect all
the weights the users collect. So the overall index display can be
implemented at a later point.

So this ui modification should enable the user to modify the weights
of the proxies (the individual indicators) within one category.

Here are two wireframes for the same thing, in different states:

1. The users has clicked the "employment" keyword to get additional
details. There, the sub-sliders are visible in their default position,
which is: all the the maximum.

http://www.sendung.de/cust/okfn/yourtopia/wf-20120413-1900/?Page=Category_details_plus_Sub-Sliders

2. If the user drags all three sub-sliders within one category to the
minimum position, this results in setting the whole category to the
minimum. The category slider is then disabled. This is shown in this
sketch:

http://www.sendung.de/cust/okfn/yourtopia/wf-20120413-1900/?Page=Category_details_plus_Sub-Sliders_zero

@Rosamaria: I guess this is more or less what you suggested.

In order to disable a proxy, the user has to drag a slider to the
minimum position. I think this is nicer than having an additional
checkbox or some other toggle mechanism, like in my first draft.

The fact that the sub-sliders are hidden in the details panel will
mean that only users interested in the internals are going to see it.
It won't get into the way of people who simply want to play with the
category values. Dirk gave me the impression that the sub-sliders are
by far less important than the main category sliders and probably will
only appeal to an expert audience.

You can give me feedback on this until today 16:00 UTC, which is 17:00
London time and 18:00 Italy/Germany time. If I don't here from you
until then, this is the way I am going to code this part.

Cheers,

Marian

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