Hi Martin. On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:33 +0000, Martin Pilkington wrote: > 1. Removing unnecessary clutter - removing things that are better > suited on other pages, and re-arranging items to make a cleaner look > 2. Expanding links - for some items that were previously linked to, > I've pulled the content onto the main page > 3. Improving terminology - Some of the terminology in Launchpad can be > quite confusing
Thank you very much for working to improve Launchpad's UI issues. We are not planning a redesign this year, nor have we committed to do so next year. The 3.0 UI took 30 engineers 3 months deliver. Even though we fixed issues that went back to the beta UI, We do not believe we can undertake a redesign as you propose without committing the whole team two months. I was very excited to see you proposed designs for the person and tam pages, which is think are bad and need fixing. Can you propose fixes to these pages using the current design as a guide[1]? When I provide lots of information to these pages, the information is badly presented. The challenge when designing for Launchpad is to understand the many communities that use it. Your designs favour the connection between the person/project and the end-user, but that is not a goal of Launchpad [2]. The most important communities are Ubuntu contributors, project developers, opportunistic developers, translators, and bug triagers. Your designs drop information that the most important communities need. The primary problem with the person and team pages is that they must act as both information to other users and as a tool for the person/member. There are many bugs reported by users regarding the team and person pages: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry For example, your design favours showing who is in the team, but this information is rarely needed by the communities that use the team. Team members and proposed members want to see the changes in membership that is on the current page. Your design drops the "Subteam of" portlet; I think this is worthy of discussion because I am uncertain this portlet works when there are many teams listed. The PPA and Mailing list portlets do not appear to be providing information that users need, and actions that users want to take. Ubuntu users need better information about packages and projects that a person/team is involved with. [1] The current design's attempt to place small domains of information in to boxes (portlets) is flawed. Not all entities use the information in the portlets, and they are given equal weight on the page, which skews the importance of the information [2] Answers is the only application that must be usable to end-users -- __Curtis C. Hovey_________ http://launchpad.net/
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