Pancake/French Toast

What is French Toast?

Meet French Toast: File:French Toast Intro.mov.tar.gz

French Toast is our code name for Pancake's next-generation user interface.

Design

• Pancake/French_Toast/UX
• Pancake/French_Toast/Prototyping

Prototypes

See Pancake/Prototyping for rational. User testing sessions:

• Pancake/Prototyping/2012-08 General User Testing

Feature Notes

Notes from feature implementation discussions we've had. These are living, and therefore loose, specs. What we've outlined here are hypothesis on the best way to address user stories. They will probably evolve in response to prototyping.

• Layer Navigation: "I want to understand where in the app I am, and how to navigate within it".
• Search View: "Help me find x. I want the results to be easy to understand".
• Type-ahead Search

Design Files

• File:French Toast Intro.mov.tar.gz: An intro to French Toast, including an animated demo.
• File:French Toast UX Walkthrough.tar.gz: The master design document for French Toast. Contains wireframes, an animated prototype, design rational and user stories.
• File:French-toast-pinning-and-updates.mov.tar.gz: Further explorations of pins and the updates feed.
• File:French-toast-wireframe-artboard.pdf: a wireframe artboard exploring French Toast's UX concepts.
• File:French-toast-ux-animated-wireframe.tar.gz: An early animated keynote wireframe exploring interaction concepts for French Toast.
• File:French-toast-layer-behavior.mov.tar.gz: an in-depth description of how the layer navigation works.

Development

• Authentication
• Message API
• Client-Side Store
• Client-Side AJAX/IO

Code/Repositories

• mozillapancake on Github: Group page for Pancake repos.
• gordonbrander/french-toast-html on Github: Prototype markup and styles for French Toast. Only just started.
• gordonbrander/French-Toast-Assets: Illustrator, Keynote and Photoshop files on Github.
• sfoster/amd-store on Github: A store forked from Dojo that allows you to create live query sets. Mixins for XHR, LocalStorage, etc.

Subpages of Pancake/French Toast

• Pancake/French Toast/IO
• Pancake/French Toast/Message API
• Pancake/French Toast/Prototyping
• Pancake/French Toast/Prototyping/2012-08 General User Testing
• Pancake/French Toast/Store
• Pancake/French Toast/UX
• Pancake/French Toast/UX/Minimum Viable Product
• Pancake/French Toast/UX/Navigation
• Pancake/French Toast/UX/Search
• Pancake/French Toast/UX/Type-ahead Search