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What is this?

User!

Home

• Each child chooses a dual-tone color scheme for her XO character

• Used throughout the interface

Activities, not Applications!

Groups

Circle of friends, their classmates, etc.

Neighborhood

Home Mode with a number of activities started

Activities

• Resumed not opened

• Can join others’, share, send/receive invitations to join, …

• Verbs: draw, browse, chat,

Zoom Metaphor

The Frame

Left, Top, Right:• nouns - Persons, Places, Things

Bottom: • Elements requiring Actions - Activities, Invitations, Notifications

Bulletin Boards

A Space for Posting Things

Toggled by button in Objects

The Journal

• The Notion of "Keeping"

• Journal Entries• Implicit

– the associated Object - the photo, the message, the drawing, the story - becomes embedded within the entry.

• Explicit– Note– Clipping – Event

Metaphors

• Desktop : Neighborhood

• Menubar : The Frame

• Hierarchical Filesystem : Journal

• Applications : Activities

• Files : Objects

• Bulletin Boards

• Zooms