Mirek, all, thanks for pointing to this interesting article. I tried to find out what you mean by 'design ethos' and found a mail [1] from you from that started the topic and the wikipage you created [2].
Unfortunately I think I do not really understand the goal you want to achieve. For my understanding it is extremely hard to define general design guidelines. I pick two examples you provide: I can agree to "Polished - every little thing counts" - no doubt about that. But that is very general... What does apply for a design from that? How can I evaluate a design on this? In opposite "Contextual - [...] Don't show actions that the user can't take [...]" is at least ambivalent. True: never show stupid or misleading options. Wrong: never hide e.g. menu elements simply because they are not applicable at the moment (remember those attempts in M$ Office? Horrible times!) I think this is a general problem with general guidelines as they are outlined in the mentioned article as well. Either they are so abstract that nobody would reject them - but then it is also hard to derive any consequence out of them --- Or they are specific but exceptions are the rule. I see a possible solution - and hey, surprise - this again has to do with researching and understanding users: I think we should try to define conditions user under which certain rules apply. Conditions could be something like "If the user is likely to be in a stressful situation, prefer to the use of a wizard" This is just my experience, perhaps I did misunderstand your intention here. What do you think? Cheers, Björn [1] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg04372.html [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Ethos Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2012, 17:49:19 schrieb Mirek M.: > Hi everyone, > Could we agree to use the Firefox UX principles [1] as the basis for our > design ethos? > I'd like to get this approved on the upcoming IRC chat. > If you have any issues with it, please speak up. > > [1] http://uxmag.com/articles/quantifying-usability -- www.OpenUsability.org www.OpenSource-Usability-Labs.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
