Some comments from another post to consider when exploring clipart and template enhancements.
>>Closer integration of clipart and template libraries with user >> > experience. >> > > I think there was always objections to bloat the office suite with too much > graphic intensive templates. Not sure if that opposition will be gone now. > Impress does need a major facelift with animations and transitions. GSOC > had integration bridge to OpenClipArt to import the clipart from the > website, this functionality is also present on Inkscape. > I think better integration with external repositories is key. Look at what MS Office 2013 does. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Kevin Grignon <kevingrignon...@gmail.com>wrote: > KG01 - see comments inline > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Xin Li <lxnice...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Andre, thanks for your feedback. >> >> Yes, agreed. The current templates in AOO looks a little out of date. It >> is >> the time that we explore more new templates to make the templates nice and >> good for use. >> >> We have more nice design, I will continue to publish more. >> >> 2012/11/2 Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> >> >> > On 01.11.2012 10:00, Xin Li wrote: >> > > Hi， >> > > >> > > I have uploaded five nice presentation template. Welcome to have a try >> > and >> > > give me some feedback. Thanks. >> > > >> > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8966 >> > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8968 >> > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8970 >> > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8972 >> > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8974 >> > >> > I like them all. >> > It really gets time to clean up the set of AOO templates, drop the ugly >> > ones (not sure how many would remain) and replace them by prettier ones >> > like yours. >> > > KG01 - +1 > > We should perform an assessment of all the templates to see which ones are > still relevant and which are dated. For example, perhaps we could introduce > templates to help people create wireframes for mobile devices? > > In addition, we should seek ways to make the templates more discoverable. > Perhaps we could introduce tags to the template ecosystem? For example: > business, formal, cool_colours > > This opportunity for improvement has been captured in the UX Opportunity > Backlog<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_-_Opportunity_Backlog>. > Let's start to explore possible design directions. > > Regards, > Kevin > > > > >> > >> > -Andre >> > >> -- >> Best regards, >> Xin Li 李欣 >> UX designer >> > >
