Information Overload - Simple & Detailed Overviews

[GraylinKim]

As the number of projects increases, and the amount of information we wish to communicate increases (as it seems its likely to do) I think we will start running into a problem of too much information to communicate horizontally (I would argue we're already there for smaller resolution screens).

I propose we pull our columns back into a detailed view of the projects that can be accessed by expanding a basic overview. It should give us more freedom and less clutter in the long run.

An example setup:

Have the project name and links to wiki,blog,repo in the basic as a thin row. Click to expand the basic overview and you get detailed wiki/blog/repo information (when, what, who)

[epall]

Sounds interesting. Would you like to build that feature, or at least sketch a mock-up? If we're re-working the layout of the main page, why not do something with the wiki column, since it's just a bunch of "Yes"'s this semester?

[GraylinKim]

See my other issue. The idea would be to kill the expansive columns in place of a detailed view. The session/cookie even be used to remember which ones were expanded so you have fast access to details of projects you have interest in and just a brief overview of those that you don't.

I'll kick over to windows later and throw up a setch in illustrator.

[natestedman]

We've been discussing really moving this from a little progress tracking utility into a real website for RCOS (or others!), with a consistent theme and layout, etc. Therefore, we will hopefully have individual pages for each project with descriptions, screenshots, and other information. I think that with the redesign, details about updates could move to the front page and to project pages (Facebook news feed style), and the table could just show the basic information, cleaning up a bit of the clutter.