Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better?

Posted by Edwin Yip
Apr 18, 2010 at 08:58 AM

Hi,

This question is a little hard to describe for, so let’s see the screenshots below, the first one is the “text-based outline” I call and the second one is how it look like after applying the visual style (each node in the outline looks like a shape), some told me that the shape-based outline looks a little cluttered, some else seem like it, what do you think?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Text-based-outline:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367923/file-hosting/wo/screenshots/beta2/projectinbox.png

Shape-based outline:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367923/file-hosting/wo/screenshots/newoutlinevisualstyle.png

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