Hi Marc, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a note to all of the regular contributors to this list. > > I was wondering if we could just do a quick defining of the "Design" list > and its purposes. The reason I ask this is that I find that often people > will post more UX related questions that would be better debated on that > list. > > I see the "Design" list as really being a list where LibreOfice design > members are asked questions or asked to help out with designing icons, logo > design, VI requests, designing of any parts of the LibreOffice suite > elements ... essentially all that pertains to designing objects using a > paint/vector programme. This would also include discussions re: needs of > the marketing people. > > The UX-design list, I see more a list where the discussion of extending or > modifying the actual look and feel of LibreOffice and not the actual > re-drawing or drawing of new elements using a paintingg/vector programme. > The list is more concerned with discussions and examples of these new > modification to the programme which would lead to some coding changes. > > I am not sure if I have described the differences in these two lists > enough for people to understand ... feel free to add your interpretation. > > If we could ask people to respect these two differences, then we would > then have a clear difference of the type of work expected on these lists > and perhaps we could then advertise the fact that on the design list we are > really looking for people who are merely interested in the drawing aspect > of design and not that of the true "design" aspect of the distro. We may > then be able to be more focused on our contributions on these two lists? > > I find that we sometimes are in the middle of getting some good > contribution done on this list when another post arrives and distracts > enough to lessen the previous contribution and leads to less focus of the > items. > > I don't know about the other UX-designers, but it looks like the > UX-members need to constantly watch the "design" list as well as the "UX" > list just in case any UX questions are asked on the design list. We (on the > design list) could do more moderation and ask that any posting of > UX-related items should be re-posted on the correct UX list rather than > allow it to be taken up on the design list. And, the UX members could do > the same thing on the UX list. > > Would this sound reasonable to the UX team and the design team? > So far, the design list has been used for discussions among the design team members, whereas the ux-advise list has been used as a communication hub between devs and designers, intended as a way for devs to ask UX advice (hence the "-advise" part). That's also been the official definiton of the two lists: * design list: "Discussions list of the LibreOffice Design Team, covering user experience design and visual identity design." [1] * ux-advise list: "Meeting ground for hackers and UX experts - get advise here for user experience questions" [2] I've been quite happy with the way it's worked so far. It's true that designers who are interested in more than graphic design should follow two lists, but I don't see that as a huge issue. [1] http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
