Scratch

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

You know what might help? Making this a (shorter run time) Scratch Design Studio theme. that way a lot more scratchers would make mockups and you could get a lot more ideas. just an idea. 

That's a really cool idea! However, I think the collaborative spirit that's going on in this thread - people sharing and collecting ideas and coming up with a list of desired features, is more conducive to good design. But it still might be fun to have a "Brainstorm about the new my stuff page" Design Studio....

SSBBM wrote:

Awesome idea. Here's a mock up:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2nkkrbn.jpg

Credit to Jonathanpb

Wow - that's big! It's so much information though, I'm concerned it might be visually overwhelming. Also, allowing comments on a user's my stuff page might be fertile ground for conflicts -- that's one reason why we've kept comments to galleries and projects only so far.

One thing I like about this that I've also seen in a few other mockups is the "About Me" section.  But what if we used Scratch instead of text?

You could make a Scratch project "About me" and share it to your profile. Then click the "About Me" box on your my stuff page. You would then be prompted to select a single project as your "About Me" project. Its thumbnail would then appear in the "About Me" section so visitors could click on it and be taken to that project.

Do you think that would work as well as text?

Lightnin wrote:

RocksAndFire wrote:

I have one! Not much. I made it in firebug.

Nice! Having the featured project be life sized and playable is an interesting idea! I'd have to think about that one... how would it change the experience of people browsing other people's my stuff pages to have a project start playing as soon as they did?

how about if the project didn't start playing, but rather had a play button you could press if you wanted to play the project?

moocow98 wrote:

how about if the project didn't start playing, but rather had a play button you could press if you wanted to play the project?

That would be an option, true.  But a full size project would still take up a lot of space and emphasis on the userpage. That's not necessarily bad, but it could be confusing since it will look a lot like the project page.

I'm not sure if this will be possible, but I hope that as we move to flash we'll get more options as far as size goes - so you could play a project at half size.  Or perhaps you click on the thumbnail, and the project expands so you can play it right on the page?

RocksAndFire wrote:

I think it will help give an idea of the scratcher, and let the user find good projects. Example: If I went on 08jact's account now, and looked at an update, I would think: "This guy can't make good games!" But if his featured project was up (Probbally iSyn) He would become one of my favorite scratchers!

Ah - really good example! So the featured project shows you what the Scratcher is mainly interested in / working on at the moment. It really would, as you say, "Help give an idea of the Scratcher."

wiimaster wrote:

A mock up for it is coming soon.

Awesome - your list of ideas sounds great.    I look forward to seeing it.

Jonathanpb wrote:

I have mine!!!          I put in a message area, and an option to change the color (you know, that orange fading thing) and the userpage's background (I didn't put in a background though). Oh, there's also a spot that lets you rearrange projects.

Click for the full size!

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2158 … erpage.png


And I thought I might as well show what happens when you click Arrange Projects - little things appear on the projects that you use to drag them. They're supposed to look like arrows, but they sort of failed... again, click for full size.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/866/ … erpage.png


Hope you like them! 

^this is best!^   

here is a mockup I made.
[url=http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/]http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/EliXir777/1333568

EliXir777 wrote:

EliXir777 wrote:

here is a mockup I made.
[url=http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/]http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/EliXir777/1333568

oops, my link didn't work, oh well, the adress is this: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/EliXir777/1333568

I'll tell you how.
You go: [url=http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/EliXir777/1333568]linker[/url]
You get: linker

Last edited by zorket (2010-10-08 17:00:57)

Lightnin wrote:

Or perhaps you click on the thumbnail, and the project expands so you can play it right on the page?

That sounds good. Maybe, to make things less confusing, you click the thumbnail and are asked if you want to expand? I like theidea of half-size too.

You could try something like these: http://route50.net/base/ You can say ANYTHING you wish, like quiz results, or just something about you!

Btw, that is the base for my Route 50 account. It is mine, and so is everything in the detail box. My good friend is the brother of the webmaster.

Last edited by ScatteredDreams (2010-10-05 21:49:59)

Credit to ScatteredDreams.


Did you see mine? If you didn't see it I don't like you

Jonathanpb wrote:

I have mine!!!          I put in a message area, and an option to change the color (you know, that orange fading thing) and the userpage's background (I didn't put in a background though). Oh, there's also a spot that lets you rearrange projects.

Click for the full size!

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2158 … erpage.png


And I thought I might as well show what happens when you click Arrange Projects - little things appear on the projects that you use to drag them. They're supposed to look like arrows, but they sort of failed... again, click for full size.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/866/ … erpage.png


Hope you like them! 

i like that idea! *VOTES* 

Lightnin! Finally done! I've got the backgrounds done and they are here!