Miikka Leskinen wrote: > > 1) The present website usability is criminally bad. > > Could people on this list do a brief summary on what they think is wrong > with the current design (https://www.sc40.sfo.collab.net/) when it comes > to usability?
I think that the "criminally bad" comment referred to the current home page at http://www.openoffice.org, not Maarten's design. Having said that, I'll comment on usability of Maarten's design: * The User and Password fields are half-hidden. * The boxes on the left have low contrast. * The middle box says "new?". What is that supposed to be? OOo news? Those three boxes are the entire extent of the information available on the page on an initial screen. That, and links to the components. But there is no link to tech support, contact, mailing lists, documentation, latest news (unless that's what that green box is supposed to be). Users may or may not realize that there is stuff below the screen. It is certainly not evident when I first load the page. If you do scroll down, you find a tiny bit of information. Not much though. There is nothing that would tell the user how to get help, or where to get a manual (which is often requested on the users lis), or how to even report a bug! The best I can say about this design is that the picture in the centre is pretty. But that doesn't justify the removal if imortant information, or introducing ambiguity, or discriminating against users with low-contrast vision. > Has any of these problems been fixed in Maarten's recent proposal > (http://www2.hku.nl/~maarten/external/OpenOffice.org/proposal3.0/)? One of them. He replaced "new" by "new user". Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
