Al: Cool little history lesson on where the speech bubbles in iChat originally came from.
Looking at the features they were trying to nail with the speech bubble design, there's some diddit-centric ideas we can steal:
1) make an "in-progress" bubble - make it look closer to what the speech bubble will look like when created, with the user's headshot and a dotted border for new comments/replies/edits (instead adding or reverting to an empty text field floating on the page). This'll also help group the different form elements: text box, toasts, form controls.
2) make the user's own comments visually distinct - can experiment with the use of color or some other treatment to make their own speech bubbles stand out.
3) crunch down the bubbles as much as possible - inserting lots of dates and other administrative debris breaks up the flow of the conversation, it'd be great to take the approach from the feeds and show a date only once if it's going to be repeated (like if all the bubbles from the same date only had the date in the first bubble or outside it completely, who knows).
Any other ideas?
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