Dear UX, UI and design comrades, today we finalized the basic work for the guideline. I'd like to introduce the artifacts shortly.
First of all it contains of the vision. A vision describes the goal of the project. It can be emotive and a source of inspiration, for instance by outlining how the final product makes the world a better place. * We agreed on: "Simple for beginners and Powerful for experts" Personas can help identify the target users of your application and provide a common understanding among the design and development team. A persona is the representation of a user, based on empirical data. * We defined two primary users: the beginner Ben and Eve as the expert, as well as the secondary persona Adrian, an IT admin, who is also taken into consideration for time to time. Finally we outlined our design principles in the manifesto (as known from agilemanifesto.com). * Simplicity by default with Full Functionality on demand * Consistency over Efficiency * Usability over Graphical Design Any design decision should be done based on these artifacts. For instance if we talk about inserting charts we need to define how Ben would want to work with it (instead of "I would like it in this way") and add means to access all features for Eve. Additionally, we have to consider if Adrian is affected by the changes. How the dialog will look like is defined by the guidelines about controls and workflow that follows the next week(s). Before we publish these statements to the community we want to align the ideas over the design team. So please read carefully what we did so far and comment the hell out of the document (everybody can read and comment it on Google, the link is below). Thanks a lot and a nice weekend, Heiko. On Sunday 19 April 2015, 16:05:56 Jay Philips wrote: > Hi All, > > Last friday we restarted work on UI guidelines for libreoffice and if > anyone has useful input into the matter, please do comment in the google > doc and if you can, meet up with us next friday at 12pm utc. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSYOFoG6jnj2G0zWDbUYkrGZoj7YCSI9j3onkTZ6 > 5bU/edit?usp=sharing -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
