[Sw-l] Feedbacks about mobile app to write in SignWriting

Sat Mar 14 15:14:12 UTC 2015

SignWriting List
March 14, 2015

Hello Adelaide, and Jonathan -

First, THANK YOU. This design, Adelaide, is truly beautiful. I love it!

And I love this logo and the name SWapp:

And I personally like the use of the wheel (the 8 angles of hands in a circle). Some hands may look better than others in the wheel, but it works nonetheless...

Second, thank you Jonathan, for giving your feedback. You got further than I did. There were so few buttons available, that I got lost many times, but I finally did get two symbols in the SignBox and one arrow, and I narrowed it down to two signs for the sign for HOUSE on the side search of the dictionary, but I was never able to create the sign for HOUSE myself from scratch.

So Adelaide, if you want us to really try your beautiful design in reality, then I need real instructions like…

1. click here
2. then click here
3. then click here and so forth…

But in playing around with what I could get, I found this amazing screen of a keyboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See attached screen capture…

Wow - I wanted so badly to just start typing with the keys, but they didn’t work yet ;-)))

So thank you for giving us a glimpse of what is to come -

It is a pleasure and a great privilege to have so many new SignWriting programs in the works, and Adelaide, if you can get all the buttons to work, the SWapp will be used!!

Val ;-)

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> On Mar 12, 2015, at 4:03 AM, Jonathan Duncan <duncanjonathan at YAHOO.CA> wrote:
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> Hi Adelaide,
>     This is an exciting project!!  
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>     At first I had a hard time getting around the prototype just because a lot of features (buttons) aren't clickable.  But then when I saw the green squares it helped me get around.
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> I really like the symbol circle. To choose the rotation.  I have something similar in my program SignWriter Studio.  Just to let you know that it´s intuitive for many symbols but not so much for others, that´s why for some symbols in my program I just show a list to choose the rotation, but of course being in a circle doesn't really make it any worse for those either.  I really like how the circle appears afterward and is a big space saver on the screen.
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> The T9 like completion looks great.  
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> You should try modeling your prototype with a more complex hand shape than the flat hand.  If you were to use an open 5 hand where you can see the thumb and baby finger you would see that you would need 4 more buttons for the left hands (rotations 9 through 16)
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> Wish you the best
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan
> On 3/12/2015 4:54 AM, Adelaide Imperato wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm Adelaide, an italian student of graphic design in Urbino. For my master thesis I've designed a mobile user interface to writing in SignWriting and I'm looking for some feedbacks, can you help me? New mobile technologies allowed me to create a personalized keyboard with SW glyphs, and I would also add the prediction text technology (like t9) in the application, to complete faster the writing of the signs and to organize the glyphs in two dimensions. It's very hard to explain my thesis project in few lines, sorry! Unfortunately I'm not a programmer so my prototype isn't fully working, you can only write a word: house. So I ask you trying to write “house” with my application and than tell me if you'll notice any problem both in structure and in design. The application is designed for iPhone for this reason some icons will be more familiar to iOS users, but it will still be testable for everybody. This is the link of prototype: http://invis.io/AJ23UG0U8 <http://invis.io/AJ23UG0U8> That's gonna take you just a few minutes to help me out with this testing, and I will be very grateful if you could! Thanks a lot in advance, Adelaide Imperato ________________________________________________
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