[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

Hi Björn, all

Björn Balasz wrote:
> Hi Bernhard, all,
>
> Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 23:09:33 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
> [...]
> > > This is a Free Software Project. As a design team, we will not need to
> > > convince ourselves about this need to change the GUI (we all agree on
> > > that), we will need to convince the people actually doing (and
> > > financing) it - the developers and the companies paying them.
> >
> > [...]  if we can convince more than just a few developers by showing the
> > needs our users to the entire community, this would get more developers
> > interested and involved...
>
> I am argueing towards a single position we, the UI team needs to come up 
> with. This position needs to shared by the whole team, paid and voluntary 
> developers!

In a community of volunteers shared positions by all team members are hard
to establish, especially if you try to integrate designers and developers in one
team.

But your right: This needs to be our goal. 

And this will only be able to reached by clear (user) data and convincing 
scepticists by good and valid arguments.
> [...]
>
> > I'd start with a gallery of the already presented mockups
> > (perhaps with a short description of their features) and then go through
> > this gallery and collect the single features for another gallery of UI
> > elements / positions / ideas as a basic tool for our overall concept.
> >
> > I don't know if a gallery or a table would fit our needs better.
> >
> > While a gallery is easier to create and maintain, a table allows to add
> > more fields than just one caption below each image.
> >
> > With a gallery we probably need to go to the gallery entry's wiki pages
> > to get the necessary information.
> >
> > A table (containing mid-size images in one of their columns) would allow
> > to add the features contained in the mockup, the rationale for each
> > specific design element (if existing) and many more information.
> >
> > On the other hand it's harder to write than just to the gallery.
>
> Could you take care of this? Important to me seems to be that commitments are 
> licenced correctly and allow to show mocks, designs and even prototypes at 
> the same time. Don't know which technical solution is best for this...

I can try to - but I'd really appreciate someone else to step in (too).

My time is limited, but that's probably the same for each of our tema members.

Best regards

Bernhard




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