[libreoffice-website] Re: Proposed Drupal Frontpage and Genral pages theme -- Drupal Web. Dev. Team

Le 2010-11-23 18:38, Christoph Noack a écrit :
> Hi Marc,
>
> thanks a lot to the whole team! And of course, thanks for the changelog
> etc. I would love to provide detailed feedback, but I really miss the
> time at the moment ... so here just a few "instant thoughts" from a UX
> perspective (that usually means that we mainly refer to those items that
> require tweaking, we mostly skip the positive stuff *g*).
>
> Drupal Frontpage ...
>
> Information Design
>        * Visual Hierarchy
>                * The most important element (Download) button is hard to
>                  locate. It misses the "conventional" design being green
>                  and at a prominent position.
>                * The groups/elements miss space to get better separation.
>                  As people say "space is information".
>                * The header graphics (colorful) moves away the attention
>                  to the more important stuff. It also seems to be
>                  animated ... so please either keep the site as clean as
>                  possible and keep the larger header graphic, or remove
>                  the visual intensity of the header graphic.
>                * The text and element sizes are somehow unusual. Some of
>                  the text is very large, some of the text is tiny.
>        * Editorial Content
>                * Text like "I need help" may be true, but only few users
>                  want to hear that they are helpless :-)
>                * The "I ..." have been a matter of debate for a long time
>                  on the OOo website. The "I ..." doesn't add value and
>                  doesn't help to feel "part of the community".
>                * The Web 2.0 stuff (great idea...) seems a bit scary with
>                  the square brackets. And, it seems to use a lot of
>                  space ...
>
> Layout
>        * The layout requires intensive scrolling - some of the
>          interesting items for those who are not aware of the activity
>          within the community, might miss the news and the blogs.
>          Although I do like its presentation.
>        * Some items are visually connected to others, although there is
>          no information link - e.g. the search box connected to the front
>          graphics.
>
> Visual Design
>        * The visual design doesn't fit together ... for example, the logo
>          at the top got some mirroring (why?), but the remaining items on
>          the page show drop shadows - with light from directly above. the
>          other items show shadows with light direction "front". Some more
>          items are just flat. The text in the header graphics shows
>          shadows with light from the right side ... it doesn't create a
>          harmonic and consistent impression. Another example: Some of the
>          object edges are rounded, some are "sharp".
>        * In most cases, websites (and UIs) do look good, if they are
>          aligned to a certain grid. Within the current proposal, most of
>          the item groups are unrelated / not aligned with other items.
>          This would create more "visual stability" and predictability
>          (where to look for what).
>
> Accessibility:
>        * Elements sometimes do have limited contrast. For example, the
>          text in the header graphic is hard to read (white on bright
>          green). The "breadcrumb navigation" is black (small font) on
>          gray background.
>
> Okay, time is up :-) I hope this criticism is perceived to be helpful
> instead of annoying. However, I'm looking forward to see some more
> information with regard to the community goals, and thus, the visual
> language.
>
> By the way, maybe I have discussed some things not being meant for
> discussion. I recommend to use the "Fidelity Matrix" to improve such
> kinds of discussions. I blogged about it here:
> http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/05/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html
>
> Mmh, I just saw the mail by Ivan - so feel invited to discuss that with
> some more people on the design list.
>
>
> Michael and web-site team, sorry for mis-using this thread - I still owe
> you some information on the UX workflows and tools. Yet to come :-( But,
> has there been any consideration of implementing website analytics /
> statistics to further improve the page once it is online?
>
> Bye,
> Christoph

Thanks for the notes Christoph. This is really helpful. I don't believe 
that the website analytics / statistics had been considered at that 
point. But IMO these should always be part of large sites like these.

I believe the consensus is to move these conversations to the Design 
list. So see you there.


Marc


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