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The page features draggable “pills” that represent the different target user groups of our application. The place where they drop the pill decides the inter-group visibility of the comments.
Once the user continues on from the privacy settings page, they arrive at the Tags page. This page fulfills users’ need to direct the type and sort of feedback that they receive from their peers and mentors. Tags are simply short words or phrases, much like those seen on sites like Flickr or Twitter, that suggest a theme for feedback.
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Rating stars are directly manipulated: highlighting on hover, and filling-in on click.
Users can make general comments about the piece that will appear in the container on the right-side. The artist-defined tags help to guide the reviewer’s feedback without restricting it. We had originally required users to categorize their comments based on a predefined set, but in prototyping we discovered that reviewers found this limiting and stressful. Tags offer a more flexible, but still guided user experience.
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Users can also create pinned comments directly by clicking anywhere on the image--a crosshair cursor indicates this option on image hover.
The user can edit pinned comments in-place by double-clicking (shown below) or in the comment display for flexibility and consistency.
When the user hovers over pinned comments in the comment panel, the corresponding pin will highlight, so the user need not remember the correspondences (recommended by heuristic evaluation). Likewise, the pinned comment in the panel will highlight when the user hovers over the pin.
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