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We have a stellar list of guests lined up. We’ll be grilling them about prototyping, workflows, techniques, and generally pestering them until they give up all their design secrets, so you, the listener, can benefit.
I wish someone had told me earlier.
An interesting concept video of what could possibly be Skype 6 for Mac.
According to the design team:
The design goal was to create a Skype that was so polite, users would be happy to leave it open, and visible on the screen at all times. The current 5.0 version of Skype is so large we find that users often cover the window with other applications or quit the program all together.
This all sounds good, except that the solution they are exploring ignores the fact that people don’t bother with profile pictures. Most of my contacts are using built-in defaults, generic images or no avatar at all.
Having said that, the concept introduces some interesting UI patterns like detachable chat windows and vertical tab navigation.
The team of experts is back to work I guess.
Even though Yojimbo comes with a fast and reliable quick entry panel, I thought it'd be more convenient to jot down quick notes using Alfred, so I wrote a tiny Applescript extension that allows you to do just that. Just type in the keyword (defaults to qn for quick note) followed by the body of your note, then hit return. A Growl notification should confirm that your note was successfully imported into Yojimbo.
Click the screenshot above to download the extension. For the theme used in the screenshot, check my previous post.