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LittleIpsum Selection Interface

by Grant Hutchinson Pro Jan 16, 2011
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9 Responses

  1. Pro Me-200x200 Grant Hutchinson

    Earlier today, Dustin Senos requested some feedback on a proposed UI for his nifty LittleIpsum utility. The problem involves how you might simplify and streamline the way specific chunks of faux-Latin text can be selected via the menubar item.

    My suggestion was to represent the various bits of text (words, sentences, and paragraphs) as blocks, similar to the way you would abstractly ‘Greek’ text in a layout. By dragging the cursor through the ‘text blocks’, you immediately see the amount of text being generated and placed on the clipboard.

    over 1 year ago

  2. Pro Jonathan_hoefler Jonathan Hoefler

    Nice, Grant. This looks really intuitive. What's the scale?

    over 1 year ago

  3. Pro Me-200x200 Grant Hutchinson

    This is currently 1:1 (as you can see by comparing your cursor with the one in the mock up). However, this was blasted together quickly to give a rough idea of how the interface might work. I would suggest that the window/popup would benefit from being another half again as big.

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    over 1 year ago

  4. Pro Desk Trent Walton

    I use Little Ipsum quite a bit and I think this is a great idea.

    over 1 year ago

  5. Me-200x200

    Shot_1295223907_teaser LittleIpsum Selection ... I decided to mock up my concept for LittleIpsum’s proposed selection interface in situ. I am assuming that the existing menu items aren’t going anywhere. January 16, 2011

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    LittleIpsum Selection Menu

    by Grant Hutchinson

    I decided to mock up my concept for LittleIpsum’s proposed selection interface in situ. I am assuming that the existing menu items aren’t going anywhere.

    over 1 year ago

  6. Avatar2 Waseem Dahman

    Great Idea!!!

    over 1 year ago

  7. Pro Me-200x200 Grant Hutchinson

    @Trent & @Waseem Thanks. I’m positive that Dustin can make some iteration of this idea work for Little Ipsum.

    over 1 year ago

  8. Pro Me-200x200 Grant Hutchinson

    I think Dustin’s followup to this is quite brilliant, but I’d need to see it in action.

    over 1 year ago

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    Shot_1295390305_teaser Little Ipsum UI - Lucky January 18, 2011

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    Little Ipsum UI - Lucky

    by Kyle Pickering

    over 1 year ago

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