(Floe) UI Options configurations and interactions

Configurations

On web page

• Top panels
  • Fat panel: expanding panel of options **
  • Skinny panel: persistent panel of options
• Full page options: account preference-like options **
• In-line options: modular options residing inline with either the content or other page interactions
• Drop-down options: contextual options revealed via right-click
• Floating options
• Spotlight-like option search **
  • Especially as combined with profile presets/easy access to frequently used options

Special considerations:

• Responsive design
• Expandability to many options, but also quick access to frequently used options
• Profile presets which both: a) sets up good basic defaults, and b) gives quicker access to options likely to be of use

On platform

• In any browser (purely web-based)
  • Desktop/laptop
  • Mobile
    • Smartphones, and other handheld-sized devices
    • Tablet
• Browser extension (for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) *
• Browser wrapper with options (for mobile)
• Out-of-browser widget (e.g., on OS X, item alongside battery, clock etc. to turn on and off UIO, to change preferences quickly and globally for all browsers, etc.)

Interaction considerations

• Input modalities:
  • Haptic/tactile
    • Keyboard
    • Mouse
    • Other physical interfaces (via something like MaKey makey)
  • Voice
  • Visual (?)
• Semi-intelligence on system's part: detect user behaviour and provide suggestions based on it
  • E.g., intercepting Cmd-+ events on browser and suggesting other easier to read options