Hey everyone, If you've not gotten a chance to check out Android's new design guide, please do: http://developer.android.com/design
It's *really* slick and does a great job of being both an introduction and a reference. It has short, to-the-point text and *lots* of really, really nice imagery. Seriously, go look at it now please. I'll wait. So, now that you've looked at that, look at our equivalent: http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines Yeah, our navigation is pretty and the text content itself is fine. But *man * are we lacking in the illustration and imagery department. Specifically, look at our "UI Toolkit Elements" section: http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/ui-toolkit-elements/. Now look back at Android's: http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/. See all those pretty screenshots, illustrations, freaking *miniature embedded UI screencasts*!? I feel like it'd be a great goal for us to get one effective image under each heading. So if a page has no subheadings, we should have one image there. If the page has subheadings, there should be one image with each of the subheadings. If you have screenshots, please, *please, PLEASE* follow the style guide for all the proper font/theme settings and the way to display your images: http://elementaryos.org/docs/style-guide/images. You can either send them to me ([email protected]) or upload them yourself. Let me know what you guys think about this idea, and what else we can improve. Android's a platform that's traditionally been ridiculed for being ugly, inconsistent, and having bad docs. elementary is a platform known for being pretty, consistent, and having decent docs. If we're lagging this far behind Android now, we should be worried. ;) Thanks, Cassidy James
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