Dan Price wrote: > On Wed 16 Apr 2008 at 04:28PM, Mark Phalan wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:01 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> As opensolaris.com starts to focus more on the 'download, install and run' >>> experience, catering towards the consumer rather than the producer, a few >>> people >>> in Sun have been working on a design separate to that of the current >>> opensolaris.org. The following is the latest iteration of that design - >>> >>> http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-new/index.html >>> >>> Much of the content is still being worked out [1]. >>> >>> opensolaris.org will continue to be the live hub for most of the day-to-day >>> activity we currently see across the projects and community groups - >>> nothing >>> changes there, though hopefully the benefit is that it will relieve some of >>> the >>> burden from opensolaris.org on trying to cater for 2 pretty distinct >>> audiences >>> than it was originally intended for. >>> >>> Have a play with the mockup, tell me what you think! >> >> Looks very nice. Is the long term plan to go with a similar theme on the >> opensolaris.org website? > > Agreed, very attractive overall. A couple of thoughts: > > Home page: Lack of left-to-right symmetry in color usage is a little > odd--- the human heads are oddly homogenous (shouldn't they be more > diverse?) whereas the circles come in many colors. Ditto with "share" > bubbles. To me the human icons make more sense for "share", perhaps in > conjunction with the bubbles. What if they were all rendered greyscale > until you mouse over them?
We tried the greyscale in a previous iteration, but the homepage ended up looking pretty dull when you first visit it. I'll pass the feedback up to the design team though. > Share should include something more instantaneous than forums: chat, > perhaps. I think it was originally something like 'Discuss', but it didn't seem to blend very well with the overall participatory effect of open source, and wanting to share more than just their experiences. Long term you might include something like blogs, swag store, or others in a 'share' section. > I'm confused by the use of "developer forums" on the "share" page... > aren't these user forums? Yes - a lot of the content has yet to be finalized. > Design of download area should factor in multiple download methods-- and > design for that. Current openoffice pages do this rather well. I > didn't think the download area was especially well laid out-- there's a > tiny link at the top called "CD" and then a giant arrow further down. > In some places on the page, the arrow is something you can click on. > In some places it's decoration. That's not OK. I agree - we definitely need to promote multiple download methods (including mirrors). > Don't love the arrow icon too much. It just somehow doesn't fit. How > about something more organic and less metallic? > > Pages claim to be XHTML 1.0 strict, but aren't. I just hate when people > do that. See > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnome.org%2F%7Egman%2Fopensolaris-new%2Findex.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 I'll pass both of these back to the design team. Thanks for the feedback Dan, very helpful! Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
