Hi Ivan, Mirek, all! I really would like to overcome my previous "telegram" style messages and to focus on topics like that I'm very much interested in. Sadly, time is still very limited, so (a bit late) a big thank you to all who invest a lot of time to shape these ideas (some of these are great, e.g. the "page is an object" idea).
Back to the splash screen ... Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 19:50 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: > Hi Mirek, > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen: > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/. > > It's fantastic to see your creativity being unleashed here. I really > hope we can see some of these ideas in LibreOffice in the near future. > The start centre and splash screen are topics that I'm really > interested in, especially since Christoph put forward a hybrid > proposal on the OOo wiki page he just mentioned. Aehm, do you mean this one? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:ChristophNoack/Drafts/WelcomeCenter_2010 > > The Start Center would lose the standard chrome of LibO and stand as a very > > lightweight application that opens while LibO loads, removing the need for a > > splash screen. > > For individual applications (where the Start Center is skipped over), there > > would be an undistracting notification that the app is opening. > > The *perceived* speed of startup is something that should really be > considered by the designers here. [...] > I wonder if a similar analysis could be done with LibreOffice to > identify design strategies that enhance the user experience (felt > experience) of LibreOffice's start up. Maybe serving as a starting point: There has been (much) work that has been done within OOo already. There is a dedicated project for improving the performance. For example, "we" (UX) did a survey to identify general problems concerning speed. And Frank worked on something called "User Experience Index" to rate "perceived" speed of the software. The project can be found here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Performance I have some ideas how this could be linked with automated testing to check perceived speed/slowness ... but maybe later :-) > Mirek, you've put forward some > great ideas and possible solutions, but I think we should analyse the > problem in more depth first (if you have any data or did any research > on this, please share it with us). Again, a starting point? Along with my "Welcome Center 2010" idea, there has been some thinking on how the next StartCenter in OOo should be revised. Frank (the same person, UX team) collected information on the start-up process. (Oh, I see in the wiki page versioning that Mirek already helped with that ... cool!) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Projects/Start-up_process So I wonder whether there is some interest to form some kind of interest group or even a dedicated UX team. At least, there might be better places than [tdf-discuss] ... or? Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to [email protected] Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
