Re: [UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons
Hi Kevin and Samer， Thanks for the explorations and contributions. The icons looks great! I love them! I prefer the flat ones which are not have gulls because they looks simple and clear. But I also agree with Kevin that we should explore the icons with and without the gulls. I suggest we can have the different size for these icons, for example 16pixel/24pixel/32pixel. So that have a preview at small size. 2013/7/8 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org Another option would be to ditch the single gull and have a flat orb in the upper left corner, in its original colors. The desktop icons might need to be toned down a bit to not clash. Likewise for the document icons, which don't scale well with those gradients. (Also, when did OpenOffice get two tones. Was I sleeping?) This works to indicate that Apache OpenOffice is the associated application. It also works when there are other decorations, such as a lock or signature security indicator, other indicators that tend to be overlain on the lower left corner. Some do it differently, especially for large icons associated with documents. The format may be identified in the upper left (e.g., PDF) and the associated application is indicated in the main symbol (Acrobat Reader). Microsoft uses generic icons for word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, e-mail applications, etc. There is then a single-letter badge that indicates the application when it is a Microsoft associated format. For Apache OpenOffice having the orb as a badge on each of our designs serves a similar purpose. It occurs to me that the page surround is not needed. The larger versions of the inscribed symbol can be used on its own, with the orb in the corner of those. They might be borderless then, apart from the shape of the central symbol, and the page curl could go away. (Whether a simple document-page surround is used on large icons, such as 64-bit ones, is a different matter. That option remains.) The difference between a template and the document icon is pretty subtle. I get the tear-off from a pad of paper, but only because that is the only way I can explain it to myself. With uninscribed icons (other than the colored framing of the different symbols), maybe the difference is for the template graphics to be with dotted or dashed lines rather than solid. Just grasping at straws here. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Kevin Grignon [mailto:kevingrignon...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 06:43 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: dev Subject: Re: [UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons I think we should explore the icons with and without the gulls. Let's see what the feasible options look like before we drive towards a single solution. Kevin On Jul 7, 2013, at 5:09 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 7 July 2013 22:56, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Samer Mansour wrote: I've thrown my icon set up again if you are interested in using it or altering it, let me know. https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** AOO4+-+Desktop+Icons https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Desktop+Icons They are quite nice, and they fit well with the flat orb. I would keep the gull(s) since this is a distinctive feature of OpenOffice. I'm not sure about the black outline in the last row icons (those suggested for templates), it seems a bit cluttered. The gulls should be like the orb, and not reduced to a single gull. That way the gulls becomes the theme that follow our product throughout. I like the icons as such. rgds jan I. Regards, Andrea. --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [sidebar] issue 122065 needs UX input
Hi, I would like to share my thought on these two issues : 122065：For user, control Z means undo last action. If he click the up arrow of the spinner control 4 times:0.02,0.04,0.06,0.08. The result of his mental model by clicking Control Z should be 0.06,0.04,0.02,0.00. Just back to last status. If the focus move to other controls, Control Z should not work. But if the focus move to editor working space, Control Z should work. 122062: It‘s ok that put the unit in spin box. User can easily change the unit they want. Thanks. 2013/4/24 Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com Hi Oliver, 122062 [1] has the same background... [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=122062https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122062 Sincerely, Armin On 24.04.2013 10:40, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, I had a look at issue 122065 [1], submitted regarding the behavior of edit controls in the sidebar panel. It describes a more general problem of edit controls in OpenOffice - already observable in the existing UI. For a general improved UI behavior of the edit controls in the sidebar panel one of the UX experts should have a look. Please, can someone from UX take action on this issue. [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=122065https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122065 Best regards, Oliver. --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- ALG --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!
Great and interesting ! Have submitted my vote! Looking forward to the result! 2013/4/25 Manuel del Valle m...@outlook.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:50:15 -0400 Subject: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open! From: robw...@apache.org To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org The Apache OpenOffice project is planning a brand refresh for our next major release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0. As part of this effort we are looking to update our logo. We've received 40 proposals from community members and we would like your feedback on these designs. Great! many nice logo designs, and quite different... You can find the survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/815178/ I'm having trouble getting to the actual logo survey with Chrome. After answering the first demographical questions, I can't submit them: the Next button won't work. I'm using Chrome Versión 26.0.1410.64 m, on Windows 7 SP1 (x64) I tried a couple of times, same result. I finally submitted my votes using Firefox. I also tried Opera, next button works fine. Thanks in advance for your participation and feedback. Thank you for setting up the survey! Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Design Exploration - AOO 4.0 Sidebar Specific Content Panel Design
Hi all, The sidebar design proposal for AOO 4.0 has been uploaded to AOO UX wiki： http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Sidebar_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals We have three parts: 1. Overview visual information definition. Including the gradient color, the background color, the border line, the font color, the font size and so on. 2. 27 specific panel design of Sidebar Properties Deck. 3. Controls consistent issues proposal : Contrast 13 controls that will show both on sidebar and toolbar. Your comments and feedback are strongly welcomed. Thanks. 2013/3/25 Xin Li lxnice...@gmail.com Hi Andrea, Thanks for the feedback. I agree that icon style need to consistent. But for AOO 4.0 we have no time to rebrand the visual style. And both gray and blue colors are exist in current AOO icons, so the color of the S(strikethrough) is ok. Icons style refer to the whole visual style, we will consider rebrand this in the future. Thanks. 2013/3/24 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 22/03/2013 Xin Li wrote: 1. Icon style of sidebar in AOO 4.0. From UX point of view, to avoid the usability issues, we need to make sure the same icon for the same function in AOO and all the icons have the same visual style. So we need to use AOO icons in sidebar. For the buttons which did not have AOO icons, we will use Symphony icons. ... http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Sidebar_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals I think everything is quite nice, except the contrast between the OpenOffice and the Symphony icons when used side-to-side. Example: in row 1 of http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/e/ed/4.0_sidebar_panel_list.jpg the B, I and U icons (bold, italic, underlined) are gray, while the S (strikethrough) is blue. Maybe some color tweaking would give better consistency here. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Design Exploration - AOO 4.0 Sidebar Specific Content Panel Design
Hi Andrea, Thanks for the feedback. I agree that icon style need to consistent. But for AOO 4.0 we have no time to rebrand the visual style. And both gray and blue colors are exist in current AOO icons, so the color of the S(strikethrough) is ok. Icons style refer to the whole visual style, we will consider rebrand this in the future. Thanks. 2013/3/24 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 22/03/2013 Xin Li wrote: 1. Icon style of sidebar in AOO 4.0. From UX point of view, to avoid the usability issues, we need to make sure the same icon for the same function in AOO and all the icons have the same visual style. So we need to use AOO icons in sidebar. For the buttons which did not have AOO icons, we will use Symphony icons. ... http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Sidebar_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals I think everything is quite nice, except the contrast between the OpenOffice and the Symphony icons when used side-to-side. Example: in row 1 of http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/e/ed/4.0_sidebar_panel_list.jpg the B, I and U icons (bold, italic, underlined) are gray, while the S (strikethrough) is blue. Maybe some color tweaking would give better consistency here. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
[UX] Design Exploration - AOO 4.0 Sidebar Specific Content Panel Design
Hi all, We are working on the AOO 4.0 sidebar design. Based on the option 10 we have published, we are working on the detail panel. During the design work, we according to two principles: 1. Icon style of sidebar in AOO 4.0. From UX point of view, to avoid the usability issues, we need to make sure the same icon for the same function in AOO and all the icons have the same visual style. So we need to use AOO icons in sidebar. For the buttons which did not have AOO icons, we will use Symphony icons. 2. UI controls in A00 4.0. I think we should choose the one has more user-friendly interaction behavior. As you know, Symphony did lots of improvements based on the original Open Office, so I believe the current behavior in Symphony is more reasonable choice for us, like Number Bullet, Line Style...And again, we should pursue the same behavior for the same control in one software, if we choose the Symphony behavior, we should apply it to all areas, such as toolbar, property dialog... At least we need to keep the first level UI elements on controls of sidebar and toolbar consistent for 4.0. Based on the two point above, we create the detail panel design. Please find the UX wiki to see the detail panel design by the link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Sidebar_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Welcome to share your thoughts. Thanks. -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: I Volunteer
Augustus, Welcome join us. Wish you have fun in this community. :) 2013/3/1 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Augustus, We also have many ux design explorations ready to go. See the UX page on wiki. Reach out to me for more info. Regards, Kevin On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Augustus - Aparanji Fine Arts wrote: I'm a graduate of Photography (BFA) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hyderabad, India and got interest in Graphic Designing with great zeal over art and aesthetics. I like to work as volunteer for you. Welcome, Augustus! Your skills make you a perfect candidate for the ongoing logo discussions currently being held on the marketing mailing list. See http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-marketing.html for more information on joining the OpenOffice marketing group and see the wiki to get up to speed with the current logo discussions: for example, https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Logo https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Desktop+Icons https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Planning https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Social+Sites Regards, Andrea. -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
Hi Andre, Thanks for the screenshots. Our ux team is working on the detail design of the layout. We will give a clear indication of the gradient color and the icon layout. We will send out one by one these days. 2013/2/28 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com On 25.02.2013 11:21, Andre Fischer wrote: Am 25.02.2013 08:03, schrieb Xin Li: Hi Ariel, Thanks for your concern about the issue of color customization. I think we need to **discuss this issue as two parts: 1. Do we need to create the new look and feel for AOO? We always say that the current look and feel for AOO is out of style. We know that AOO just use the system color by default. But if we want AOO looks more modern and fashion, we need to do some change, we need to have new design for default look and feel. You can see that most of the PC software have their own default look and feel, like: MSO, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and so on. I think if the default visual style of software is good, the requirements of change color will be smaller. 2.User also can change to other colors if we have default new look and feel. We create new look and feel does not mean that we forbid user change color. User can also change color if they don't like the default look and feel. And I think the reasonable way is user can change the whole interface with sidebar to other colors. I will try this week to find some time to play with the colors. On Windows we are not so far away from the system colors, anyway. Maybe it is good enough to use the cleaner look (not so many lines and boxes and title bars as the old (Impress) taskpanel) together with the system colors. Besides, the system colors still offer some choice. And we can modify them a little bit like in the Impress slide sorter. Its selection color is based on the system selection color but is made a little brighter (I think). There are a lot of knobs to turn. Lets see what I can do. I have uploaded three screenshots (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac) for a slightly modified color scheme. Colors are based on system colors as provided by the StyleSettings class. I used the result of GetDialogColor() as base for most background colors. Panel, deck and tab bar use it unmodified. For the panel title bar I use a second color that is the dialog color with a modified luminance (-15). That same darker color is also used for the border around the deck. The border of tab buttons uses GetActiveBorderColor(). Please have a look: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Status I have not yet checked in my changes but will do if anybody is interested. -Andre -Andre Thanks. 2013/2/21 Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org Hi Xin Li, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0800, Xin Li wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your votes and your feedback. I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : A1:8A2:7A3:6 B1:8B2:8B3:10 C1:3C2:2C3:5 For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would be best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already relate to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We should do some light-weight change in AOO. If you see something gray in the user interface, it is because your system uses that color for painting that particular object. If a user doesn't like gray, s/he has to simply switch the desktop theme. Moving away from the system's style settings only renders the sidebar as something that does not fit with the rest of the application/desktop: http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/sidebar/ These screen shots are from different GTK themes, the sidebar is obviously not following the rest of the application (the Navigator is side-by-side to show this fact). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
Hi Ariel, Thanks for your concern about the issue of color customization. I think we need to **discuss this issue as two parts: 1. Do we need to create the new look and feel for AOO? We always say that the current look and feel for AOO is out of style. We know that AOO just use the system color by default. But if we want AOO looks more modern and fashion, we need to do some change, we need to have new design for default look and feel. You can see that most of the PC software have their own default look and feel, like: MSO, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and so on. I think if the default visual style of software is good, the requirements of change color will be smaller. 2.User also can change to other colors if we have default new look and feel. We create new look and feel does not mean that we forbid user change color. User can also change color if they don't like the default look and feel. And I think the reasonable way is user can change the whole interface with sidebar to other colors. Thanks. 2013/2/21 Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org Hi Xin Li, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0800, Xin Li wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your votes and your feedback. I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : A1:8A2:7A3:6 B1:8B2:8B3:10 C1:3C2:2C3:5 For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would be best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already relate to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We should do some light-weight change in AOO. If you see something gray in the user interface, it is because your system uses that color for painting that particular object. If a user doesn't like gray, s/he has to simply switch the desktop theme. Moving away from the system's style settings only renders the sidebar as something that does not fit with the rest of the application/desktop: http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/sidebar/ These screen shots are from different GTK themes, the sidebar is obviously not following the rest of the application (the Navigator is side-by-side to show this fact). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
Hi all, Thanks for your votes and your feedback. I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : A1:8A2:7A3:6 B1:8B2:8B3:10 C1:3C2:2C3:5 For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would be best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already relate to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We should do some light-weight change in AOO. So maybe we should start consider the light-weight color change when we do the design and avoid to use dark color that make the UI too heavy. So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed before.I use a light grey on the side bar and use a gradient for the section title. And I also align the same light grey to slide thumbnail panel background in Presentation. Because the content area on the center should have the highest priority, the rest elements should have lower priorities, and items with the same priority should be treated with the same way. I have added the latest design(option10) to AOO UX wiki page. Please see the latest design by the link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Welcome to share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks. 2013/2/9 Manuel del Valle m...@outlook.com I like proposal B (I think it's the most stylish one, and adds less visual noise), but I tend to agree with Kevin's comments: I'd like better a mix between B1 and B3: light grey panel + dark grey title. That way, it does provide certain contrast for the title, but doesn't draw too much attention to the panel itself, allowing the user to focus his/her attention on the doc. Otherwise, it does look nice ;) Greetings, Manuel -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Presentation templates for ApacheCon NA 2013
Hi, I just create a template for this Apache North America Conference based on the template of Apache EU Conference. I think the two conference template should be a series template. Please find the template by the link: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/template/upload/thankyou/9282 Welcome to share your thoughts and feedback.Thanks. 2013/2/15 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org Saransh Sharma wrote: Ok Great let me work on it how much time do we have to complete this ...if we have short time i can ask my fellow designers to contribute and to help me if we have ample time then great!!! Most presenters will start working on their presentations in the coming weekend (i.e., tomorrow!). There's no need for an elaborate template; something like the ApacheCon EU one http://templates.openoffice.**org/en/node/8865http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8865 would be just fine: a cover slide and an internal slide. Graphics can be found at http://holdenweb.com/**acna13gfx/ http://holdenweb.com/acna13gfx/ http://acna13.eventbrite.com and higher-resolution versions can be requested from Steve at the former link. The template must then be uploaded to the OpenOffice Templates site: you can do it yourself by following http://templates.openoffice.** org/en/template/guide http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/guidebut if you send me the file, under the Apache 2 licence, I can take care of uploading it. Thank you! Andrea. -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
. In an effort to minimize UI noise and help keep the focus on the editor canvas - the work - I recommend we adopt a hybrid of proposal 1 3: a grey background with suitable contrast for the title sections, a darker grey. Another option might be to use a gradient for the section title. Darker to lighter, top to bottom. This would frame the header, reinforce the expand/collapse affordable And reinforce the info architecture. More importantly, if the gradient resolved to the background colour, it would eliminate the line between the header text and the content. This will strengthen the association between the section title and content and mitigate the Lego effect. I can prep a sketch to illustrate my point. Re: control styles Again, noise reduction and consistency would be best. Flat backgrounds are consistent with other toolbars and reduce non-actionable pixels. I recommend we implement Proposal B. Again, great job. I'm looking forward to exploring new and exciting uses for the sidebar framework. Best regards, Kevin On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Development of the sidebar is progressing well. It already looks a lot like the mockups posted by Xin Li on December 18th [1]. I have concentrated on the underlying framework, so there is only one partially migrated panel so far. Nevertheless the framework is now flexible enough to think about the default color scheme to use. There are developer builds [2] and an extension that allow live evaluation of the nine different color schemes from [1]. I would like to ask you to either look at the mockups at [1] or try the developer builds [2] and tell me what color scheme you like best. General information about the sidebar, the current state of development and how to help can be found in the wiki [3]. Thanks in advance for you help, Andre [1] http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/AOO_UX_Design_** Exploration_-_Task_Pane_**Content_Panel_-_User_** Interface_Design_Proposals#**Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_** Design_propoals http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals [2] http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Sidebar#Developer_Builds http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Developer_Builds [3] http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Sidebar http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar PS: I remember Rob having asked the same question on our Facebook site but can not find the email anymore. I also remember that the feedback was somewhat inconclusive. Does anybody know the details? -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Five new presentation template design
Kay, thanks for your support. I will upload more.:) 2013/1/14 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com On 01/08/2013 11:25 PM, Xin Li wrote: Hi all, We have some new presentation template design and have uploaded five new templates. Welcome to have a try and give me some feedback. Thanks. http://templates.services.**openoffice.org/en/node/9165http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9165 http://templates.services.**openoffice.org/en/node/9169http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9169 http://templates.services.**openoffice.org/en/node/9171http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9171 http://templates.services.**openoffice.org/en/node/9173http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9173 http://templates.services.**openoffice.org/en/node/9175http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9175 Very nice. Thanks. -- --**--** MzK No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
[UX] Five new presentation template design
Hi all, We have some new presentation template design and have uploaded five new templates. Welcome to have a try and give me some feedback. Thanks. http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9165 http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9169 http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9171 http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9173 http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9175 -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Design Exploration - Task Pane Content Panel User Interface Design
Rob, thanks for post the design on Facebook. Yes, I agree with you that it could be a good way to engage with our users. I see there already have more than 10 responses. Wish will get more. :) 2012/12/20 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Xin Li lxnice...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have been exploring on Task Pane framework and content panel design. I have post the 9 proposals on AOO UX wiki. I put the question up on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/395424523873910 5 responses in less than 30 minutes. I think this could be a good way to engage with our users. -Rob See: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Capture any thoughts or feedback in the discussion section of the wiki page. Thanks. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Design Exploration - Task Pane Content Panel User Interface Design
Hi Joost, Thanks for sharing your thought. Looking forward more to give your feedback and share your thoughts. Thanks!:) 2012/12/18 Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de Hi, I prefer version 3C. Such a task pane should work like the task pane control in Impress. Am 18.12.2012 08:22, schrieb Xin Li: Hi all, I have been exploring on Task Pane framework and content panel design. I have post the 9 proposals on AOO UX wiki. See: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Capture any thoughts or feedback in the discussion section of the wiki page. Thanks. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Kind regards, Joost -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Can I get permission to upload files to UX wiki?
Hi， I'd like to continue the working on the UX wiki and usually need to share ideas or screenshots on UX wiki. I need to upload side bar design ideas screenshots to UX wiki and can not upload files these days. Can I get the permission to upload files? My wiki account is Xinli . Thanks very much! -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: wiki.open office Volunteer Application
Welcome to join us, Doreen. I'm very glad to see new design major volunteer to join Apache Open Office. Wish you have fun in our community. Thanks! 2012/12/13 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org On 12/12/2012 12:37 AM, 陶然 wrote: Hello, I'm a collage student ,and my major is industry design.I'm very interested in wiki open office,so I send you this letter to wonder that may I be a member of volunteers? I will be very Appreciate if you agree my joining ! Best regards, Doreen Also, if you intend to edit content on the WIKI, respond to this email (be sure to include the mailing list) and indicate the username to use for your account. Note that you only require an account if you will edit WIKI content. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odthttp://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design
I noticed that there are two position and size for different object, is that means we should have different content design for different object type? 2012/11/26 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Manuel del Valle m...@outlook.com wrote: NOTE: I really like the style only way. In fact, I would love to see an alternative Writer UI were direct formatting is completely forbidden. Direct formatting is a bad habit that always cause headaches. But that's just me ;) Regards Ricardo +1 I couldn't agree with you more, Ricardo. Perhaps users wouldn't be accustomed to it at the beginning, but eventually it becomes a win-win situation. In my (small) experience, most non-techie users (which are, by the way, a vast majority) don't even know styles and, even when you try to introduce it to them, or even when they actually do know them, they can't get used to it. They see it as some sort of a problem instead of a (very) useful tool. And so, in order to convince them, we end up writing articles like this one: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/why_should_you_.html Even when it's quite aged, not much has changed since then regarding Styles' UX. It would be a good idea to try to make it more obvious for users that, whenever they write a Title (or anything else), they should tell OO that those words put toghether are meant to be a Title (or a subtitle, or...). Perhaps presenting it as some kind of tagging procedure would be a good idea, since users are very used to it as most web giants (Facebook, G+, GMail, etc) already feature them. And actually showing that tag (some transparency over the text, perhaps?) would probably help as well. That said, perhaps forbidding direct formatting might be a little too much. But maybe we could explore the idea of presenting it more clearly as the second choice. Help users understand that, when direct formatting, they are actually overriding an already predefined style (e.g.: default text). IMHO, the way we group tools toghether in a brand new Task pane could actually help that purpose. Among other things, of course, but all those would be a bit off-topic ;-) Regards, Manuel Hello All, I've further refined my proposal for the minimum viable content in support of the task pane design exploration. See: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_-_Information_Design#Must_Have Please keep the great comments, as see above, coming. Ideally, we should be open to enhancing the task panes and property views for the minimum vialble, aka must have content as we implement this first phase of the task pane capability. Insight taken from our review comments will help drive such enhancements. Best regards, Kevin -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
