====== Ramblings ======

While I feel strangely compelled to post some elaborate hoax message today, I will eschew such light-hearted frivolity due to a complete lack of creativity and a severe case of sleepiness.

Anyhoo, I spent a bit of time today reading Joel Spolsky's [[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000247.html|Joel on Software]] articles. The excellent chapters on [[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html|user-interface design]] set me thinking about improving the L3DT user interface and, in particular, switching to a design model that is based on [[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000065.html|activities, rather than features]]. The addition of an activity-centric 'wizard' could really flatten-out the learning curve for many common but unnecessarily complicated user tasks (eg 'I want to import a heightfield, then make a texture for it' - currently 13 mouse clicks). I'm planning on packing a wizard into release 2.3 in a somewhat minimalist form, with extensions to follow in subsequent minor revisions.

[[mailto:aaron_torpy@yahoo.com|Any thoughts, dear user?]]

What about a paper clip? Or a really cute kitten?