Non-Modal Messages

One guy from the Sun UX team sent me a note  that some new ideas (or better: serious thoughts) are documented within the OOo wiki covering "non-modal messages". That is great news, since avoiding "Modal Dialogs" should be one of our top priorities when designing new or changing existing functionality.

We discussed that since quite some time - the more I am happy that my contributions have been referenced on that page. So what is available when talking about "in context" and "non-modal" information:

• Contextual Undo (User Experience Idea)
• Direct Manipulation Snippets
• Contextual Information within Dialogs (here: Print Dialog) 
• Blog posting covering these topics (a bit) when I met some guys in Hamburg

Cheers,
Christoph