Re: [libreoffice-design] Discussion about Extensions-Site-Layout

Hi all,

I would love to jump into some of the new discussions (like Citrus UI),
but I feel that its also important to finish the discussion of the
Extension page. For those who might be unaware - the Extension website
has been announced to the public. There has been some nice coverage
(e.g. the German publisher heise a.k.a. h-online) featured it. So let's
start to make it perfect ;-)

Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2011, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Christoph Noack:
[...]
> So, refining the tasks list ... open for discussion, of course.
>
> Interest of the people approaching the page:
>      1. Getting extensions / templates ... so users should get an
>         initial idea (so showing e.g. the most recent or best rated
>         items -> from here, people should be able to get further
>         collections)
>      2. Getting help how to install Extensions (currently it is still
>         manual work, so we have to help here)
>      3. Making it possible to "forward" information / templates to other
>         people (use case: advanced user "helps" less experienced person
>         to find what he might need)
>      4. Upload their own content (this needs refinement as well ...)
>
> The interest of the LibreOffice community:
>      A. Getting information about LibreOffice (to know that this is an
>         official page, to get information about "us" if the user
>         approaches the page by accident)
>      B. Ask for joining the community / supporting LibO (e.g. spreading
>         the word, joining the community as explained on our "Get
>         Involved" on the main page).

Anything missing? Any comments from an "User-oriented Engineering"
point-of-view?

What I'm thinking about is

Item 2.5: Currently, people need to pick extensions bit-by-bit. What
we're missing (not now, but if we become more popular) is a way to
suggest Extensions to users - fitting to their needs.

        Examples how this could be done:
              * Prepared collections by users / teams, e.g. the
                "Professional Writer" pack, the "Extension Developer"
                pack
              * Automatically created proposals like "Other people that
                downloaded XYZ also downloaded ABC".

Item 3.5: People want to provide feedback on downloaded extensions.
Either indirectly via the Extension Page, or directly to the developer
of an extension.

> I searched a bit how the "old" page was designed, maybe some bits and
> pieces are helpful:
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ExtensionsSite.html
> and
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ExtensionsSite3.html
> and
> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_TemplateSite.html
>
> A bit crowded when it comes to the Template Preview. However ...

A related topic: The OOo extension site used so called "landing pages"
when the download of content started ... maybe something to think about
what we could achieve with it.

So, what do you think? Is this list (the primary use cases) complete
enough?

Cheers,
Christoph


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