I was trying to put my finger on just exactly why this new release of blogger is so cool. It's more than the friendly rounded design, the powerful new dashboards, the proper use of client-side scripting, or even the improved workflows (there are no dead-ends, it always suggests a logical next step). I rambled on about it to Jon for a while and couldn't remember the UI term. When I finally gave up and sat down at my computer the words just popped into my head: Progressive Disclosure. Others have already explained it better than I would:
- UI Patterns and Techniques: Progressive Disclosure
- Progressive Disclosure- the best interaction design technique?
The new blogger also hides more advanced features, or just features that are not part of the fundimental workflow, using front end technologies. That leads fairly directly into an article that I have had in the works for about a month now: Using JavaScript to Change the Mode of User Interface. Yes, it's still not done.
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I am not entirely certain that I am not full of shit. What I mean is, I think that what blogger may be doing more than anything is not Progressive Disclosure at all, but really Progressive Enabling. Jenifer Tidwell has yet
to write the content for this link, but when she does it will be relevant:
Progressive Enabling
...and have I mentioned these blogger comments are being a bit of a bitch? (the above link does not work). I am in touch with the support team about getting some paragraph formatting here without having to enable automatic conversion of line breaks on my posts. Anyway, here's that link that if you do succeed in following will result in an empty page because she hasn't written it yet: http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/index.php?page=Progressive_Enabling
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