On 22 Feb 2010, at 1:25 am, Martin Pool wrote: > Wow, these are really attractive. I hope the ideas from this get into > Launchpad.
Thanks :) As I say, I'm hoping to expand on them and then if people wanted them, then I'd help implement. But that all depends on everyone's feedback and opinions ;) > I'm looking at these on a 12in laptop and it's quite interesting to > see the impact of them viewed scaled to fit on the screen vs actual > size. These things tend to make what's above the fold very clear and > often just composed of descriptive text, which is quite interesting. > > A consequence of this is that it's not so obvious what you can do on > any particular page. Yeah, I think on some pages the issue is the variability of the description text. I used bzr as my sample for my project mockups, but with MySQL for example there would be much more of the page visible without needing to scroll. > In particular on the home page the only option is "get started" and > (much less bold) "find projects." "Get started" actually means "host > your project on Launchpad" but I think many users actually want to > "get started" with asking for help with Launchpad or reporting a bug > in Ubuntu. So perhaps we can either make the search box just do a > global site search, or add some buttons for particular tasks. I'm of two minds about this. Part of me agrees that it needs to be more general, but a bigger part of me questions whether users just wanting to file a bug or get help will go via the home page. Their most likely avenues of getting to the project will be either via a search engine, or via the project's homepage. I could be completely wrong on this, but I'd wager that almost everyone typing launchpad.net in their browser is wanting to find out about launchpad itself. If I was to submit a bug or have a support question for bzr for example, I would go to bzr's homepage and then follow the links to the launchpad project. > I think there was a general design trend towards deemphasizing the > Launchpad branding and emphasizing the project that lives there: there > is no top "Launchpad" branding on the site at the moment. I find this > a bit weird myself because there is rather little control for the > individual project at the moment. > > I realize it's not your main point here but I wish the site search > would go back up to the top. I can definitely look into seeing how it would fit up at the top, it currently resides in the footer. I'll have a play around next weekend when I have time to do some more mockups. Thanks Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
