And you must be able to display lots of tiny objects taking significant space…īut it’s only “obvious” because we literally spent months designing, redesigning and testing new prototypes over and over again….Consistent hue-based coloring: otherwise you’ll get lost in a minute and your map will look different with each new scan.Size-based sorting is a must: it significantly improves the visual scanning speed.All rings have the same size, variable size only works on paper.5 small external rings make finding deeply hidden data much easier without cluttering the rest of the map.It has 5 main rings as this is the optimal number for real-world data.
We talked about shareware, its problems, a lack of really good apps and agreed on creating a small app to make the world better and earn a couple of bucks in the process…Ī playground build used for tweaking the disk map
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Some of these thoughts ended up in (rather lame) articles about interaction design, design tools and other things a naïve 27-year old designer wanted to share with the world.īy pure accident (and many things in our world happen by accident) one of the articles got the attention of Oleg, a Ukrainian developer who had dropped his job as a software developer and had been looking for new ventures. I spent most of my “spare” time (that’s something between late conference calls and sleeping) reading design books and thinking about possible ways to apply my newly gained knowledge to solving practical problems. After spending 3 years as an interaction designer in a telecom startup I felt lost.ĭoing the same routine job over and over again and seeing little influence on the product made me doubt I’m ever capable of creating something worthy.