I like what I'm hearing, thanks Tony and Kevin! I say we start by:
1. Removing the majority of details from our icons, making them monochrome and perhaps slightly reshaping some of them (I could do this if noone else wants to) 2. Removing the gradients, replacing them with light shades of grey and blue (with subtle slightly darker outlines when it's necessary to separate things) 3. Reducing the two icon / dropdown bars to just one 3.1. Making Calc track which icons / dropdowns are most popular so we know which ones to display (and so we can base our UI on our own data and not just blindly copy Google's) --Dwayne On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Kevin Grignon <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > Any chance OO Calc's UI can become more like that of Google Docs? > > > > http://i.imgur.com/Jadsg.png > > > > There's just something about it. Maybe it's the > > simplicity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle>. > > Maybe it's the colors. Maybe it's the > > grid<http://www.subtraction.com/pics/0703/grids_are_good.pdf>. > > Maybe it's the fact that they've spent millions of dollars on usability > > research. > > > > > KG01 > > True story. > > Good research = good design = good development = good user experience = > sustainable product > > The GDocs solution is successful for a number of reasons. They constantly > design, test and iterate. We can emulate this process very easily. It > starts with an understanding of our users, their needs, and a relentless > focus, let's say obsession, on realizing the core use cases. In other > words, what are the core tasks that users perform in our product in the > first 20 minutes of use? How can we make them successful in our product, > and what does that mean in the age of social and mobile? > > Looking forward to continuing the conversation. > > As for design attributes for the next generation AOO, I'll create a wiki > page in the UX wiki to capture our thoughts as this conversation continues. > > Regards, > Kevin > > > > > Picasso once said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal". Please > > consider it. > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > > Tony > > >
