Slicer3:IGTdesign

IGT breakout session for Slicer interface

Goal: creating a useful, satisfying, extensible environment for IGT applications

• displaying essential information
• providing access to essential functionality
• allowing some ability to configure layout for different applications

Process:

• develop understanding of user needs (today's primary goal)
• refract through engineering constraints
• develop design plan
• get user feedback
• implement
• test, feedback, refinements, repeat.

For discussion:

Are topics below appropriate, and what’s missing?

Displaying essential information:

• what information should be exposed?
• what information can/should be present but hidden?
• what information should be removed?

Providing access to essential functionality:

• is there a “core” set of functionality?
• how to configure core environment?
• how to expose “hot-load” for additional functionality?

Allowing ability to configure layout for different applications:

• list layout requirements by application -> table to distill
• discuss multi-window versus consolidated display
• additional layout/display requirements: fonts, colors, audio, etc.?

Determine good mechanism for ongoing discussion: wiki? Mailing list? Tcon?