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Composite Design 3 is a web application designed with safety in mind while striving for reasonable efficiency. Such a design should assist more error-prone users who might be less computer-savvy while still remaining efficient enough for high-volume music directors to get their job done without much fuss. Unlike other designs, this design has been designed without a focus on playback, instead focusing on the editing and uploading portions of the task, since these are common tasks for both music directors and elves. The CMJ lists, which are used less often (submitted on the order of once a week) are not a major focus of the design, but may be accessed through a tab interface at the top.
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A detailed example of the main KaJaM! interface | The KaJaM! interface when editing an album |
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This design builds off the learnability aspects of Design 1 from Sketch Set 2 by again allowing :
- Allowing the entire window to act as a drag-and-drop interface for URLs and files at any time
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- Using external consistency with other interfaces
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- Featuring reactive buttons that highlight when the mouse is over them
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- (avoiding issues caused by users who are unfamiliar with the Windows 8 pane-style interface, used here for the "editor/What's Wrong?" view of an album
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- Making the editor a proper mode rather than an alternate path
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- to improve internal consistency
Efficiency
The design is reasonably efficient. Since the entire page is a drag-and-drop area, the
- The region in which to drop a link or file is
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- the size of the window, making steering much less of a concern when dragging and dropping links from Lana's e-mail
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- Links may be dropped like files
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- . This consistency of the
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- two actions demands no interaction with a text box, nor does it require two different methods of interaction
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- The "YES" box for approving albums is made visible in a consistent location in the album view
Unlike , as lengthy track-listings are truncated and allowed to scroll separately from the bottom comments and "YES/NO" fields. Unlike Design 1 of Sketch Set 2, however, some efficiency of editing was sacrificed in favor of improved safety and learnability by making the "editor" a mode activated by the "NO" button rather than a set of hidden widgets.
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The design is relatively safe. Making
- Making the entire screen drag-and-drop reduces the chances that a user will fail to drop the file for uploading (as would be the case if only a part of the screen was active)
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- Unifying the drag-and-drop action across both links and files
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- prevents errors caused by lapses where a link is dragged and dropped instead of copied and pasted into a form
- Should information be required, the design may be made safe by preventing submission and highlighting missing fields
- Users may easily see and edit fields with a decreased possibility that users will incorrectly edit something they did not mean to thanks to the pane interface for editing
The fields. The least safe aspects of the design relate to the :
- The compact nature of each download in the left-hand list (it's possible to select the incorrect
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- album
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