To-do

Big questions

• Zen versus Social Camouflage?
  • What about “Zen Mode” as a thing; it makes total sense
• Words versus Icons for communicating tasks?
  • I’d assumed icons were better (more attractive), but is there a power to the blankness and clarity of words? A lack of glamour?

Research

• Spend some time on my phone just trying to see typical interactions and interaction clusters and interaction sequences

• Spend time in one or more specific apps and take notes on typical interaction

Visual design

• Do some sketches of how this could look in terms of the actual screens and most especially the interaction indicators

• Make some visual prototypes in Keynote or similar

• Make more visual prototypes

Prototyping

• Checking on proportional positioning and sizing and a resizing canvas
• Checking on basic feel of random-location bubble popping (plus points?)
• Explore Zen sound effects
• Explore simple animations for feedback
• Exploration of swipe

• Esablish “modes”

• Checking on the feel of “keyboard input” idea
• How to indicate “swipe” and “scroll”
• Try to solve the pan/swipe versions of scrolling (allowing either…)
  • I assume all things start life as a pan and become a swipe pending velocity…

Issues

• I think so anyway? Remove text selection on the page
• Think about “modes” that correspond to specific UIs, this could build toward the bigger “ecosystem” idea
• Think about thumb radius (most of the time UIs don’t require interactions further than a thumb away?)
• SEEMS TO BE SOLVED Lag on press on mobile (same as the debug view, so testable)
  • This remains a problem after some initial testing
  • Further testing makes me think this is a series issue, at least in p5 seems to come down to whether a conditional is evaluated or not which… seems insane to me
  • Even further reflection has me wondering about using a different library (PixiJS?)