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At work we built a BI tool around Blockly in 2013. Still in daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-c

At work we built a BI tool around Blockly in 2013. Still in daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif

vanderZwan 5y ago
That looks really nice! The interface designer in me immediately wants to scream "Fitt's Law!"¹ and move the header with run/select/save from above the output to between the output and the code blocks though. EDIT: Actually, Fitt's Law tells us not to do that. But scrolling to find those buttons is also wrong. Why not make it a sticky header? ¹ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/fitts-law https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/fitts-l...
- mikeyjk 5y ago
  I remember getting into a discussion on Reddit where someone claimed tagging on to a bus was faster by pressing the card right up against the card reader. Always felt like an abuse / misinterpretation of fits law to me.
  - vanderZwan 5y ago
    If I understand your sentence correctly it's a bit of an edge-case (pun not intended). When designing interfaces for a screen, the edges (assuming that moving the mouse to the edge doesn't cause scrolling) can be considered "infinitely" wide or tall for the purpose of Fitt's law. This is a really old insight: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/27/designing-for-people-who-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-lives-part-two/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/27/designing-for-peop... Pressing your card against the card reader is the same idea: you don't have to be precise with your motor functions, because as soon as you hit the card reader you know you're close enough. So people can be faster with this approach. (with that in mind, my earlier solution is actually wrong: the buttons shouldn't be put between the output and the code, they should be made sticky)
- victor106 5y ago
  Unrelated question:- how are ui/ux courses from interaction-design.org?
  - vanderZwan 5y ago
    I wouldn't know, I never took them. However, looking at the "people behind" page¹ I can say that they have an impressive list of well-known experts in the field there. So at the very least they have that going for them. ¹ https://www.interaction-design.org/about/people-behind https://www.interaction-design.org/about/people-behind
TechBro8615 5y ago
Cool! Is there any write up about this?

At work we built a BI tool around Blockly in 2013. Still in daily use: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif

vanderZwan 5y ago

That looks really nice! The interface designer in me immediately wants to scream "Fitt's Law!"¹ and move the header with run/select/save from above the output to between the output and the code blocks though. EDIT: Actually, Fitt's Law tells us not to do that. But scrolling to find those buttons is also wrong. Why not make it a sticky header? ¹ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/fitts-law https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/fitts-l...

mikeyjk 5y ago
I remember getting into a discussion on Reddit where someone claimed tagging on to a bus was faster by pressing the card right up against the card reader. Always felt like an abuse / misinterpretation of fits law to me.
- vanderZwan 5y ago
  If I understand your sentence correctly it's a bit of an edge-case (pun not intended). When designing interfaces for a screen, the edges (assuming that moving the mouse to the edge doesn't cause scrolling) can be considered "infinitely" wide or tall for the purpose of Fitt's law. This is a really old insight: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/27/designing-for-people-who-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-lives-part-two/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/27/designing-for-peop... Pressing your card against the card reader is the same idea: you don't have to be precise with your motor functions, because as soon as you hit the card reader you know you're close enough. So people can be faster with this approach. (with that in mind, my earlier solution is actually wrong: the buttons shouldn't be put between the output and the code, they should be made sticky)
victor106 5y ago
Unrelated question:- how are ui/ux courses from interaction-design.org?
- vanderZwan 5y ago
  I wouldn't know, I never took them. However, looking at the "people behind" page¹ I can say that they have an impressive list of well-known experts in the field there. So at the very least they have that going for them. ¹ https://www.interaction-design.org/about/people-behind https://www.interaction-design.org/about/people-behind

TechBro8615 5y ago

Cool! Is there any write up about this?