[locationaware-specs] Icon Design

Tue Apr 3 09:03:31 PDT 2007

Exactly, I am most interested in the cases where the user has remembered
their settings and are not seeing the allow/deny dialogue. I wanted the
user to still know the site is using their location as a context and
make expect changed functionality. You guys make a good point in also
having it be the access point for configuration / options / disablement.

rs

From: Doug Turner [mailto:dougt at meer.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:17 AM
To: Kipp Jones
Cc: Ryan Sarver; locationaware-specs at locationaware.org
Subject: Re: [locationaware-specs] Icon Design

Well, that is the thing -- how is location awareness designed....

If it is a top level object off of window, similar to xml http requests,
the user is probably going to see a dialog alerting them that the page
is requesting location specific information.  If the page was somehow
remembered (that is, the user said never warn me about this again for
this particular page), then the lock icon could just be the "reminder"
that location stuff is happening in the background.  It could also allow
the user to disable the feature for the page, see how much accuracy the
user is sending to the site, etc.

Doug

On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Kipp Jones wrote:

Good thought...you do want it to act sort of like the lock icon,
indicating that the page can take advantage of location information.

I would think you'd want it to do something similar to the lock icon
on-click -- a small dialog that describes the information the page is
able to accept?  Perhaps the site's location privacy policy, its
expected accuracy requirements, etc...

Kipp

On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Doug Turner wrote:

This feels more like the lock icon rather than RSS -- the lock icon
signifies to some degree that the page is from a trusted source (lets
not hash on words here, k?), whereas RSS and microsummaries are signs
that there is alternate content.

What is the action when the user clicks on the icon?

Regards,

Doug

On Apr 3, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Ryan Sarver wrote:

Wolfgang is about to begin the first sketches for the LocationAware icon
so I wanted to make sure we got input from everyone. There is already a
page up on the wiki documenting some of the initial ideas, so please
feel free to add to that as well, but I thought it would be good to pass
some ideas back and forth before he begins.

http://www.locationaware.org/wiki/index.php?title=Icon_Design

Usage

The idea is that this icon would be used by a site and by the browser to
notify the user that the site is "location aware". I envision the
browser showing it somewhere in the marginal chrome to notify the user
of this, and hopefully sites will adopt it in the short term much like
RSS or Microformat icons are currently used.

Ideas

- Stylized Compass Rose

- Central globe with radiating circles

- Globe with arrow or triangle symbolizing a point or location

- ...

Thoughts / Ideas?

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