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Design principles
Some notes from discussions with Andrea Minuto:
- Installation should be one step.
- Avoid asking questions to the user; every question is a hurdle
- "Take the tour" to explain different components of the interface step by step
- Tool buttons for common actions like running code. Allow users to configure easily.
- -> maybe all actions can be displayed somewhere, draggable in/out the toolbar
- different levels of ui "complexity" based on experience of the user?
- macros - templates - snippets -> powerful for beginners, searchable!
- tool buttuns should have tooltip explanation and show their shortcut!
- Auto brace completion
- On each toolbutton/menu action, show (in status bar?) what the shortcut is -> help users adopt shortcuts
- On each auto-action (e.g. autocomplete) show that this was done, with a link to configure that behavior
- editor show "preview" next to scrollbar to provide context, and draggable!
- 2D menu
- menu with search
- check out vvvv.org , sublime, calibre (ebook reader)
