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Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources
- To: zekopeko <zekopeko@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources
- From: Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:36:43 +0100
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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:21 +0200, zekopeko wrote:
> One thing I noticed is that the various design specification (Software
> Center, Networking, DateTime, Notify-OSD etc.) are very scattered on
> the Ubuntu Wiki. I would like for there to be a (single) page of
> currently active specifications so we can avoid things like this:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/dpowc/1010_volume_control_menu_design_fail/c120i3z
> .
>
> Ideally I would like to see a sub page on
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved that redirects to a
> design page that then has categories: Current design specifications,
> How you can help, Learn about design.
>
> 1. Current design specifications - currently active specifications
> that are being worked on by the devs. Proper tagging for easy search
> would be a boon.
>
> 2. How you can help - can the users perform some usability testing on
> their friends? Supply us with the know-how and some tools and we can
> help if usability testing.
>
> 3. Learn about design - since Canonical now has a group of talented
> designers it would be nice if they could share (preferably freely
> available material) their recommendations on books dealing with
> design, blogs of designers etc. Basically stuff that can help Ubuntu
> users give better feedback on design issues. Howtos on usability
> testing would also be nice so other FOSS projects can make better
> applications.
There's some material on the GNOME wiki that you might want to use/refer
to:
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Participate
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Resources
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/DoingResearch (Unfinished)
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HeuristicEvaluation
http://live.gnome.org/Design/ThingsWeLike
And there's the HIG, of course:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/
> Of course all of these are simply things off the top of my head so I'm
> positive there is much to improve on this suggestion.
Allan
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