On 2007-10-29, at 13:46 , :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
Hi Louis,
FYI, the User Experience project is also quite interested in this
topic, now.
Hmmm, just to make sure, the User Experience project, isn't that
limited to the actual product?
That's what I thought. But Matthias M-P is part of the project, and he
expressed to me the idea that UX should not narrow its interests or
withhold its expertise.
I would prefer to keep it limited that way, since things related to
style are already discussed quite a lot in marketing, art, and
website. User Experience should imho stay more focussed with how
things should work for the end user, that may be partly look, but
style is the polishing, which has its effect on usability
(aesthetics is part of the definition), but can be discussed quite
well separately from the other experience problems, which deal more
with how to interact. Since managing problems over different
projects is quite difficult already, I wouldn't promote involving
yet another project in it... but that is just my humble opinion.
If the UX project and its members wishes to contribute to the
discussion, they are welcome to. I am sure you are more than capable
of evaluating any contribution.
Furhtermore regarding the style guides, there are two:
[1] http://www.openoffice.org/styles/
[2]
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/29949/OpenOffice.org%20Style%20Manual%20(Version%200.9).pdf
The first one is related to the website, the other one is related to
visual identity.
The website's style guide is mainly interesting for those who
maintain pages, and to maintain consistency. Note that some of the
colours in [1] do not really match the current visual 'identity' of
OOo (one might question whether we have actually one but...)
For visual design look at [2]. That's the best one available imho.
Cool. Then let's promote that one to users. Kay's redaction of my old
style guide, is still useful, of course.
g.,
Maarten
best
louis
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