Re: [libreoffice-design] How to contribute ?

Hi Rahul,

a warm "welcome" from my side too :-)

Rahul Prasad schrieb:
> Dear Christoph,
>
> Kindly find my answers to the questions below.
>
>
> Well, it's hard to answer this question - at least from my
> point-of-view. So instead of an answer, some more questions to you:
> * What kind of material? Material for the web, or flyers, or
> icons, or ... ?
> *I want to work on User Interface of the products.*

Did you read the mail Christoph sent just a few hours ago?
http://go.mail-archive.com/Afskf_h5CtIJ4gwt78m_ADeVp_k=

As I can't remember anybody volunteered to work on this topic, it would 
be great if you could spend some time...
> * What kind of designs? Designs that respect the current branding
> guidelines, or are proposals how to re(de)fine the visual
> representation?
> *I want to work on visual representation.*

That's our goal here too: We want to work on UX/UI design as well as on 
branding/visual design.

As we are a very young team (coming from a 10 year old project with a 
corporate design team for product design), our workflows have not been 
established very well, so please bear with us...
> * Who requested it? Is it based on your initiative, or did
> somebody ask - e.g. based on the marketing or the design team
> work topics lists?
> *I suggested OpenOffice to my father and friends, but they dont like it
> much just because it does not look good. (As in comparison to MS Office,
> according to them)
> So I thought to contribute some interface design ideas in form of
> images. Although I am not a good designer but given a draft, there are
> many ppl in the list who
> make things more attractive.*

That's what we call "collaborative design" - feel free to comment on our 
proposals, draw mockups and improve our drafts...
> You may also simply talk about your ideas on this list, then it is far
> easier to understand where to put what material ... especially since we
> would benefit from focused efforts to avoid doubling the effort.
> *Suppose I have created a design, what next? Who should I mail it to?
> who will evaluate it? and how will that be implemented?*

Did you already find our wiki?

When you created an account, you get your user page.

This is mine: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bedipp

Upload your design and add it to this page or to a sub-page like mine:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bedipp/Drafts

(Of course you can use external repositories and link to them)

Then post the link here on the list.

If you reply to an existing mail, your posting will be placed in the 
relevant thread, if you just send a new mail to the list's mail address, 
you will create a new thread.

About implementation I'll reply to your next mail.

Hope this helps a bit...

Best regards

Bernhard

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