Andre, This is looking really great.
Re: colour An initial goal for the sidebar is to compliment, but not compete with of distract users from the canvas. In an effort to minimize UI noise and help keep the focus on the editor canvas - the work - I recommend we adopt a hybrid of proposal 1 & 3: a grey background with suitable contrast for the title sections, a darker grey. Another option might be to use a gradient for the section title. Darker to lighter, top to bottom. This would frame the header, reinforce the expand/collapse affordable And reinforce the info architecture. More importantly, if the gradient resolved to the background colour, it would eliminate the line between the header text and the content. This will strengthen the association between the section title and content and mitigate the Lego effect. I can prep a sketch to illustrate my point. Re: control styles Again, noise reduction and consistency would be best. Flat backgrounds are consistent with other toolbars and reduce non-actionable pixels. I recommend we implement Proposal B. Again, great job. I'm looking forward to exploring new and exciting uses for the sidebar framework. Best regards, Kevin On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Development of the sidebar is progressing well. It already looks a lot like > the mockups posted by Xin Li on December 18th [1]. I have concentrated on > the underlying framework, so there is only one partially migrated panel so > far. Nevertheless the framework is now flexible enough to think about the > default color scheme to use. There are developer builds [2] and an extension > that allow live evaluation of the nine different color schemes from [1]. > > I would like to ask you to either look at the mockups at [1] or try the > developer builds [2] and tell me what color scheme you like best. > > General information about the sidebar, the current state of development and > how to help can be found in the wiki [3]. > > Thanks in advance for you help, > Andre > > > [1] > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals > [2] http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Developer_Builds > [3] http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar > > PS: I remember Rob having asked the same question on our Facebook site but > can not find the email anymore. I also remember that the feedback was > somewhat inconclusive. Does anybody know the details? >
