Iterative Design

Palettes

Key Features

User-customizable
- Palettes may be resized, docked
- Palettes can be combined with other palettes to preserve screen real estate
Palettes support drag-and-drop
- Copy activities from Mission Library and Template Library
- Check activities into or out of the Hopper

Test Results

Users consistently requested ability to create custom views of their workspace
Screen real estate a concern but felt it would be mitigated through resizable palettes (and multiple monitors)
Strong support for drop-and-drop functionality across all design cycles

"Oh, resizing, that's a good idea."
- User 24

"The only thing that scares me a little bit is that you are doing so much more now and you have to reduce the size of everything to do it"
- User 20