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+GUI Proposal by Clay Barnes
+===========================
+:Author: R. Clayton Barnes (»rcbarnes«)
+:Date: 2008-05-21
+
+-> https://www.hci-matters.com/blog/2008/05/21/archives/41/[original blog entry]
+
+.About the Author
+***********************************************************************************************************
+*Clay Barnes* holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Arizona,
+and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
+For the last year and a half, he was the User Interface Architect in GE Energy’s Software Innovation Team.
+He previously worked for Intrigo as a User Experience Designer while living in Tucson. 
+***********************************************************************************************************
+
+I’ve pulled together some drafts of my ideas for the design of the timeline portion
+of the Lumiera non-linear video editor (hopefully, the successor to http://cinelerra-cv.org[Cinelerra]).
+
+The un-annotated version::
+  (click to enlarge):
+  image:{imgg}/Barnes.proposal.png[
+  "Lumiera UI proposal",width=300,
+  link="{imgg}/Barnes.proposal.png"]
+
+The annotated version::
+  (explaining some of the finer points)
+  image:{imgg}/Barnes.proposal-annotated.png[
+  "Lumiera UI proposal (annotated)",width=300,
+  link="{imgg}/Barnes.proposal-annotated.png"]
+
+