Hi, Christoph,
Thank you for the kind words, and even more for your input. It should be
very useful.
Christoph Noack wrote:
Hi Ivan, hi T. J.,
nice idea - just a few comments on that.
Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 22:19 +1300 schrieb Ivan M:
Could you change the icon color, differentiating between "logged in" and
"not" ? Light green, maybe, or silver; or white would certainly do in a
pinch. The idea is that yellow is a warning color, of sorts, and should be
replaced by something non-warning on successful login. As well, the user now
must focus on, and read, the text to determine the status. With a
color-change, a quick glance would do it.
T.J., I'm happy that someone notices that in the "general color
language" yellow is somehow related to warnings. Unfortunately, today
the industry does somehow ignore this basic principle - e.g. most people
don't understand that red lamps in cars are related to warnings because
many car manufacturers use red backlighting, sigh. Sorry, a little bit
off-topic.
For OOo, the yellow "user" is already known on the homepage
http://www.openoffice.org - have a look at "How to participate". The
different colors in the icon symbolize different users. So my initial
thought concerning your proposal was: changing the color of the log-in
icon will change the person who sits in front of the computer ;-)
I would suggest changing the "participate" icon on login: change the
color, and put the logged-in user in front, on the principle that "Your
call is important to us . . . "
At the moment, the icons are used like descriptive text. No icon changes
it's appearance, e.g. the world globe will stay the same for all NLC
pages, the magnifier glass doesn't indicate that something has been
searched. So here we add a status information to the icon. (This is not
bad, but I want to point out this difference.)
I favor information density and redundancy, within reason. That lets the
user choose what kind of things to notice, in general or for a
particular purpose. It conserves the user's time.
Your suggestion would lead to the following behavior (just to be sure):
* Status Logged Out: Yellow user icon (anonymous), icon links to
log-in page.
* Status Logged In: Green user icon (known user), icon links to
"My Pages".
Yes. You have put it nicely, precisely, and concisely. (My icon is
green, at the moment -- with envy, at your skill with the language. :-)
If all specs were written that well, we implementers would produce much
better work.)
My proposal: To promote the color green, it would be nice to add this
green "user" graphic to "My Pages".
+1
Or, I suggest that we add a green
check mark to the yellow user to indicate that (s)he is known.
If that "yellow user" isn't in the "participate" icon, you've lost me.
Ivan, because we are discussing the icons. The current "Languages
Projects" icon looks a bit weird on the IE6 - it seems to be the PNG
transparency bug. The other icons don't have this problem, do they
provide the corresponding background color?
Bye and thank you,
Christoph
Thanks again. /tj/
--
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
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