Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-23 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
The banner without the ribbon is good, but the ribbon is unnecessary and too flashy IMHO, I asked several people and didn't get even one positive feedback. And my friends agreed it is the ribbon. We could use something else to make the banner noticeable, now it's noticeable but in a bad way. Best

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread James Alexander
Aye, I asked a designer to give some nice options and presented them to the committee. While there are certainly some people who have not liked the banner I have generally heard good feedback overall from community members (significantly more good then bad) and have made adjustments to the banner t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Gregory Varnum
I should note it was a WMF design consultant that did this and not a volunteer (well - that it was not a committee volunteer I can verify). My understanding was they were working from UX team's guidelines as they design other banners for WMF. The request that we received was to go with a banner des

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Szymon Grabarczuk
Oh, it's not about the idea of banners or about their usual performance, it's about this particular ribbon. When I set anonnotice or sitenotice on a big wiki, I aim the statement to be aligned with UX... discoveries. Don't set extensive dark backgrounds (unless it's about to be accessibility-orient

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Gregory Varnum
I appreciate that there are basically always concerns with our banners. Generally, I hear from volunteers on nearly every banner we use. ;) That said, it would be helpful to have some more constructive feedback to pass along to the next committee. What exactly would you suggest be changed? Passing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Gregory Varnum
To be clear by "our banners" I meant Wikimedia banners - not elections banners. ;) -greg On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > I appreciate that there are basically always concerns with our banners. > Generally, I hear from volunteers on nearly every banner we use. ;) > > Th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Aleksey Bilogur
Looks fine to me. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk < tar.locesil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I must agree with that. I've received clearly negative feedback from > several volunteers. > > On 22 April 2015 at 13:18, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > > It's horribly ugly, I expected more. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Szymon Grabarczuk
I must agree with that. I've received clearly negative feedback from several volunteers. On 22 April 2015 at 13:18, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > It's horribly ugly, I expected more. > > I don't want to de-value someone's work (a person or persons that I don't > know) but we had way better designs bef

[Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

2015-04-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
It's horribly ugly, I expected more. I don't want to de-value someone's work (a person or persons that I don't know) but we had way better designs before. Best -- Amir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maili