ui-types

% UI Type TODOs

Reviewed 2021-03-03 by japhb

These todo items are for the creation or refinement of UI types. Each of these usually uses a different UI toolkit or technology, but there are common concepts and user journeys that each of them should be able to support.

  • Common

    • UI phases/states

      • initialization -- WIP

      • picking game (lobby) -- WIP

      • waiting for game to fill

      • configuring a game -- WIP

      • starting game

      • playing game -- WIP

      • paused

      • switching active game -- WIP

      • ending game

      • shutdown -- WIP

    • UX

      • Verbose, standard, terse/compact output?

      • Trigger warnings / content advisories for certain games

      • Game picking shows which games are active and available to join

    • Lobbies

      • Pick game -- WIP

      • Out-of-game chat

      • Accomplishments/rewards

      • High score lists

    • A11y

      • All UIs (except TUI probably) support screen reader

      • All games working with multiple a11y technologies on at least one UI

    • I18n

      • Translated interfaces

        • Main user UI

        • /commands

        • Error messages

        • Admin UI

        • CLI USAGE

        • CLI flags?

        • README

        • Getting Started guide

        • Hooks for using a translation service

      • Test languages:

        • Doubled (every phrase copied twice, or using fullwidth characters, to take up more space)

        • Rotated 180 degrees

        • RTL (should be able to affect layout too, not just text output)

        • RTL Pig Latin?

      • Locale awareness

        • Region v. dialect v. script v. language

        • Preferred formats for lists, numbers, dates, etc.

  • Types

    • TUI -- WIP

      • Login and quit

      • User, persona, and character creation flows

      • Lobby and game switch

      • ESC key pauses current game and opens /command prompt?

    • WebSimple -- WIP

      • Lobby as explicit game?

      • Proper web forms (Cro::HTTP::WebApp::Form?)

      • Needs security review

      • Should protect against accidental replay or out of order play, such as two browser tabs pointing at same game-id

      • Needs perf testing for JSON, static file, and templated HTML responses

    • (WebSPA?)

    • (WebCanvas)

    • (WebGL)

    • (GTK?)

    • (Qt?)

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