Hi Michael, hi Charles, David! Am Samstag, den 29.01.2011, 16:16 +0930 schrieb Michael Wheatland: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Charles Marcus > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2011-01-27 3:36 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: > >> Michael Wheatland wrote (27-01-11 09:05) [...] > > I'm sorry, but I really, really, *really* don't think that an email list > > is the proper 'forum' for discussing things like this. How can this be > > an effective medium for working out complex details for this kind of > > thing? Heck, the 'Talk' page on a wiki page would be better than a mail > > list thread. [...]
The problem of grouping things pops up regularly, I think. And there might be different ways to solve that. First, an on-list discussion might be really helpful to work out the design constraints, otherwise we'll might lost in endless discussions. For example, there are usual "hints" like: try to reduce the number of menu items to eight or below. Or, we have to support browsers A, B, and C ... bla bla bla :-) Then you have the "design ingredients", like the kind of menu (no drop-downs, design permits four sub-menu levels...). Or the "target users", primarily target "end-users" (on front pages XYZ). Some of these decisions might be iterated, but it helps to focus in the very first step ... and also for all the other to come. A few days ago, I've already started to put together some thoughts that can be seen here ... http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Structure#Proposal_by_Christoph Does this sound reasonable? Might we continue with such stuff? And I (personally) started to collect some ideas for the IA, but this is far from mature ... and more urgent things are still waiting. > Maybe we should dedicate a conference call to the web architecture? > > Can you suggest any better way to allow people to express their > opinions on the page structures? Since, at the end, the IA is something our users are faced to, the IA is usually backed by some research - one of the methods is "card sorting": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sorting Maybe there is a chance to apply it here - without adding too much effort. Therefore I CC our "agile usability" expert Björn. Any ideas? Do you have (maybe) access to some data the KDE project worked on for their infrastructure? Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
