Nokia n9 UI thoughts (II)

Last time I wrote some random thoughts regarding the GUI guide of N9.
Id love to share some thoughts on N9s UI behaviors today.

Honestly my experience with n9 is totally from the Internet due to its absence in Taiwan and also My empty wallet. I read n9s manual digitally and did some research on YouTube for better hands-on videos.

So, if u find something odd form my comments here please do let me know. Oook, Now here I list out the good features on n9.
 1. No hardware keys and even virtual keys on galaxy nexus needed.
 2. Better way to close current app. Simply slide down from the top edge of the phone.
 3. A place to log in and out all the IM services at once or individaully.
 4. Text your contact via different service(ex.facebook) directly from your contact page.
 5. Better way to list and arrange multitasking apps.
 6. Interesting yet unique to set up a clock alarm.

But there are still some aspects I would love to change.
1. The way to close apps in multitasking page is similar to ios system,
which is not as intuitive as the whole n9 experience. I would say android 4 presents a more simplyed way to do it but I occasionally closed apps due to my unprecise gesture.

2. Similar to 1. The way to remove apps has the same problem.
Neither iOS nor android 4 offers a better simpler solution to this. Especially when you have many apps need to be removed at once. 3. No widgets. Yes the iOS doesn't have that, too.

There were some interesting disussions aroused among Me and my colleagues in terms of how apple will put there widgets. Quiet a few of us voted for the search page where now is super space there.
Some said it would be the notifaton dropdown to store these widgets.

Well, I find it  interesting that n9 does provide a flexibility to extend its structure.

What I am saying is they can simply cramp a new page to its existing 3 paged structure.
Thus Users can just pan to the widget page. Its a neater way for me to find my widget info comparing to android system.

[FIREWORKS] 一個PATTERN資源

http://ftg.projectdd.jp/
日本人的FW PATTERN。

我非常喜歡FW的PATTERN功能，雖然不能像PS那樣可以任意地縮放尺寸，
可是在即時性上非常好~

小TIP:
若想依次打包，就直接按下CTL+S儲存網頁吧~

[FIREWORKS CS6]用後小感

在此之前，推薦大家看一篇文章:
http://fireworks.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/07/refining-designs-adobe-fireworks/

裡面有我覺得非常好的小撇步~尤其是其中一個"如何畫出更好的圓"
因為FW對於WHOLE PIXEL的演算方式跟PS不同，所以會造成圓(角)不夠圓滑
文章中提出的TIP是，使用數值變形(CTL+SHR+T)，然後輸入99.9%
來強迫FW RENDER出非整數點，也就是朦朧美拉~看起來就比較圓潤

另外一個就是箭頭(三角)這東西要怎麼畫才會銳利~就是用奇數寬來畫...讓尖端會落在中間點

其他還有很多都滿值得參考的。


再來說說我因為工作上的叛逆...我是說勇於嘗試
硬是要拿同事的PSD放到FW來做處理
發現了ADOBE每次說"FW可以跟PS很好的支援"都是騙人ㄉ XD

請看我用FW開啟PSD後，選擇保留可編輯性的結果

看到藍色方塊的邊緣有個半透明嗎?

傻眼~~這樣切圖就不美了

其實根據我的驗證...這是在PS中作圖的時候，就沒有做好整數PIXEL所造成的

但是在PS中看起來被柔化而不明顯了

但是進到FW就穿幫ㄌ

怎麼辦哩?

有兩個算是我試出來的偏方:

先說第一個，就是"手動"更改座標值

看到了嗎? 我只是把X座標更改為33，

圖形馬上就銳利了! 原因我不曉得~

第二個方法: edge: HARD

總之....還是很難推廣  XD

不過就像文章說的，如果你是做GUI的

最後這些小毛病都不會阻擋你愛上使用FW

(我有誇張了一些拉)

windows 7 分組檢視

最近在工作上，常常要跟sever端的圖檔做對照來改圖，
有時候散亂的檔案很難看得清楚有哪些尺寸，
其實window 7在檢視選項中可以選擇以尺寸分組，我覺得是非常好用的小功能。
不過預設分組是沒有尺寸的選項的，
要從"分組方式>其他"中來新增。

若是要保持每個視窗都有這樣的分組方式，
請到工具列<組合管理<資料夾和搜尋選項<檢視，選擇套用到資料夾

雖然是個很不起眼的小tip
對我來說卻增加不少工作效率
有興趣可以用用看~