On 13 January 2011 12:29, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried to avoid a lengthy mail, but now I need to explain. > > UI design should be approached with the same rigor as system design. A > community is better than an individual in producing solutions, but only when > the effort is in concert under a shared vision. If the arguments are just > about "I like this better", the process transforms into a design by committee > which usually leads to poor results. So, let me share my "vision". > > The first thing that design should address is functionality (although visual > appeal has a significant weight, too). In general, when you want to design > something you should ask yourself why do you need to do that. > > The intention of the Glamour-Morphic-Theme package is to offer a look that > uses a minimum amount of graphical variables while allowing you to focus on > the main content - which is that thing that you work on, not that thing that > you use for your work. > > I tried to start from zero and add a new variable (e.g., color) only when I > could not distinguish something. There are still things that are superfluous > (e.g., the border around all tabs, or the bulky shape of an expander), but I > did not have enough time and Morphic expertise to do better. >
That's why i like your theme. Because it is clean and simple and not overloaded with tons of eye candy. Yet it is elegant. > Now, orange vs blue is actually not just a matter of taste because your > orange is not the same as my blue. There are two reasons: (1) it is stronger, > and (2) it appears in more places (e.g., at the bottom of the scrollbar). > This means that it will compete for my attention with more force. This might > be your intention, but it is not mine because it takes away from my main > focus which is the content. I don't wanted to analyze why.. but if you want it.. Because orange for selection color fits much better: exactly because it should draw an attention, because i need that - i need to see what item(s) i selected, and orange serves better because it is higher contrast on gray/white background comparing to pale blue. > > Suppose you would make the orange have the same visual weight as the current > blue, then it would still not be the same because orange does not mean the > same as blue in the cultural meaning it tends to raise. For example, blue is > usually perceived as more neutral than other colors, and I want to use blue > for this reason (and also because it is the color of Moose). you lost me here. i never associating colors with cultural meaning. > > So, all in all, I do not want GLMOrangeUITheme in the Glamour-Morphic-Theme > package :), but I do invite people with a UI design interest to build a > shared vision that matches the one of the overall Pharo. > Okay.. it can be always putted into separate package. > Doru > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
