Re: [sugar] Human Interface Guidelines (update and hosting)
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone - The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time, and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort, as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of the HIG and 2) tease apart OLPC guidelines from Sugar guidelines, and adjust hosting accordingly. UPDATE: The content update is something I'll spearhead myself, as I wrote most of the current guidelines. Assistance is certainly welcome, however, /especially/ in amassing lists of holes that need to be plugged; I'm sure there are countless implicit guidelines we all follow that should really be laid down clearly and explicitly. Ideally, we should be able to answer any noob question about visual or interaction design by pointing to a sentence in the HIG. In that regard, there is a component for the HIG in the OLPC trac system, so tickets are welcome. As I mentioned, a small bit of the HIG (mostly the input methods section, but perhaps others) are XO specific. I'll attempt to tease this apart as well. HOSTING: The second aspect of this effort is transitioning the HIG to the sugarlabs wiki, which seems a more appropriate place for the (Sugar) Human Interface Guidelines. I foresee this as a relatively large task, given the size of the HIG and the set of templates, raw HTML, and nested transclusion which makes a quite navigable but relatively complex page structure. I'm not a wiki pro, myself, and I'd be quite grateful to any who have the know-how and are willing to assist with, or even take on, this task. Please let me know if you need help on this. I am just now posting my notes on the pywikipedia bot at http://sugarlabs.org/go/WikiTeam/Resources/Bots . Hopefully, this will reduce the learning curve a bit! PARALLELISM: Finally, there's a third implied complication, which is how these two efforts can happen simultaneously (or not). Should we a) transition the HIG to sugarlabs, and then update/edit and move any XO specific pieces back to the OLPC wiki or b) perform a complete update in place, teasing XO specific parts into separate pages, and then move it to sugarlabs when we're done or c) come up with a way to work in parallel? Thanks for your assistance! david ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Human Interface Guidelines (update and hosting)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone - The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time, and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort, as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of the HIG and 2) tease apart OLPC guidelines from Sugar guidelines, and adjust hosting accordingly. Thanks. I have just been in a discussion of Help facilities (Yay!), and of doubly-delayed popups (Boo!). The question is how to make as much as possible easily discoverable, and what to do about anything left over. Earth Treasury is getting a textbook rethinking, redesign, and implementation consortium together. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Creating_textbooks At some point we want to write a new XO+Sugar manual that encourages as much discovery as possible, but covers every known non-discoverable feature in some way. But we won't stop at features. We will move on to the non-discoverable parts of teaching discovery, collaboration, and other Really Big Ideas. UPDATE: The content update is something I'll spearhead myself, as I wrote most of the current guidelines. Assistance is certainly welcome, however, /especially/ in amassing lists of holes that need to be plugged; I'm sure there are countless implicit guidelines we all follow that should really be laid down clearly and explicitly. Ideally, we should be able to answer any noob question about visual or interaction design by pointing to a sentence in the HIG. In that regard, there is a component for the HIG in the OLPC trac system, so tickets are welcome. As I mentioned, a small bit of the HIG (mostly the input methods section, but perhaps others) are XO specific. I'll attempt to tease this apart as well. I'll invite in some other people who know something about the matter. I assume that we need to comb through the Sugar framework and existing Activities to find any exceptions to documented practices, and discuss whether to document or change them. Thanks for your assistance! [1] wiki.laptop.org/go/HIG -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
