Hi Björn, all Björn Balasz wrote: > Hi Bernhard, all, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 23:09:33 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: > [...] > > > This is a Free Software Project. As a design team, we will not need to > > > convince ourselves about this need to change the GUI (we all agree on > > > that), we will need to convince the people actually doing (and > > > financing) it - the developers and the companies paying them. > > > > [...] if we can convince more than just a few developers by showing the > > needs our users to the entire community, this would get more developers > > interested and involved... > > I am argueing towards a single position we, the UI team needs to come up > with. This position needs to shared by the whole team, paid and voluntary > developers!
In a community of volunteers shared positions by all team members are hard to establish, especially if you try to integrate designers and developers in one team. But your right: This needs to be our goal. And this will only be able to reached by clear (user) data and convincing scepticists by good and valid arguments. > > [...] > > > I'd start with a gallery of the already presented mockups > > (perhaps with a short description of their features) and then go through > > this gallery and collect the single features for another gallery of UI > > elements / positions / ideas as a basic tool for our overall concept. > > > > I don't know if a gallery or a table would fit our needs better. > > > > While a gallery is easier to create and maintain, a table allows to add > > more fields than just one caption below each image. > > > > With a gallery we probably need to go to the gallery entry's wiki pages > > to get the necessary information. > > > > A table (containing mid-size images in one of their columns) would allow > > to add the features contained in the mockup, the rationale for each > > specific design element (if existing) and many more information. > > > > On the other hand it's harder to write than just to the gallery. > > > > Could you take care of this? Important to me seems to be that commitments are > licenced correctly and allow to show mocks, designs and even prototypes at > the same time. Don't know which technical solution is best for this... I can try to - but I'd really appreciate someone else to step in (too). My time is limited, but that's probably the same for each of our tema members. Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
