On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I was reading up on Android 3 & 4's 'action bar' (sorta replaces the older menu styles) and got inspired to make some mockups for a layout for the app that might fit in better on Android 3 (Honeycomb) tablets and Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) phones.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_mockups_for_Android_style
Neat. I'm liking that were starting to look closer to what Holo Android users are going to expect
Any thoughts? I included a tablet mockup using sidebar space for keeping the search/history/saved pages lists open, and also experimented with a 'table of contents' drop-down (not fully pictured). These are just image mockups for now, nothing live or usable. :)
What about having the toc load from the far right side? During the design guild meeting I was shown an awesome demo where a Wikipedia page had the toc hidden on the side and opened up when the user clicked on the far left. You would then select the part of the article you'd want and it would disappear. It worked great. Sadly the demo of it is down :(
The split-style mockup (with bars at both top and bottom to make more items available) might also be a good base for an iOS design, where we'd need the toolbar space more actively since there's not a standard menu convention.
+1 for iOS
--tomasz