Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@web.de>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I took some time to mock-up how Writer could look.
>
> 1. Without less used icons and without the separator color
> ==========================================
> I locked the two toolbars to get rid of the grabbing area and removed the
> color of all vertical separators, except the one in the lower right corner,
> to separate the zoom amount from the horizontal zoom slider.
>
> Image: http://ubuntuone.com/56vCLYWwuluBmdoa7Mi7Vz
>
> Buttons removed:
>  * 'Document as E-mail' button
>  * 'Edit File' button
>  * 'Page Preview' button
>  * 'Spelling and Grammar' button
>  * 'Show Draw Functions'
>  * 'Navigator'
>  * 'Gallery'
>  * 'Data Sources'
>  * 'LibreOffice Help'
>  * 'Styles and Formatting'
>
>
> 2. Reordered toolbar icons
> ======================
> To save place and re-balance the UI I moved the less used 'Apply Style'
> drop-down menu to the upper right.
>
> Image: http://ubuntuone.com/3ydcBWGX78PFF30OH6KFLJ
>
> I already like the result and would be happy if LO would ship with such
> default toolbars in Writer. All suggested changes - except the removed
> color of the vertical separators - are done by simple LO toolbar
> manipulations.
>
> The toolbars don't miss IMHO anything, but are short enough to be always
> displayed - even on a small netbook screen (would need to be checked). The
> upper toolbar, left side - btw the most valuable place in every program -
> has the basic file and print stuff there, the rest of the upper toolbar
> contains less used actions.
> The lower toolbar contains all the needed day-to-day buttons - but not much
> clutter.
>
> But there is still space for improvements...
>
>
> 3. Further reordered + more drop-downs + other UI elements removed
> ===================================================
> For the third try I changed the UI (and therefore the UX too) more
> drastically, without reinventing Writer.
>
> Image: http://ubuntuone.com/3Q9Nve4ZCHUMiSL0B8OLue
>
> Cleaned-up, reordered or removed UI elements:
>  * The bottom toolbar got cleaned-up
>  * I removed the buttons beneath the scrollbar
>  * The 'Table' button moved to the lower toolbar
>  * The 'Nonprinting Character' button moved to the lower toolbar
>  * The less used text formatting options got collapsed into a drop-down
>  * The list buttons got collapsed into a drop-down
>  * Added more space between the text formatting and the list drop-down
> button
>
> Compare the image with the current default UI... I think my last mock-up is
> much better.
> It is more clean, has less lines, still looks like LibreOffice, but is much
> more easily to catch with the eyes. All day-to-day tasks can be found in
> the lower - better targetable - toolbar. Plus a lot of clutter has been
> reduced.
>
> The toolbar at the bottom of Writer looks cleaner - an average user will
> have no problem to recognize every displayed information.
>
>
>
> That's it for now
>
> Kind Regards
> Thibaut
>
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