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Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

For ease of use (Fitt's Law) and semantic consistency, i would only suggest to keep shape, position and size of the Ubuntu button on the top left corner of the screen the same on all pages featuring it.
Thx for the great work! I like the way the colors are, only thing i noticed was the green color for "active" or "current".. I think that differenciating between active and inactive may justify the use of signal colors out of the Traffic Light Scheme, yet this case concerns focused vs unfocused, and i would suggest working with either saturation or outlines here.. instead of using green.

Once again, thanks so much for starting this!!


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:46, Michael Jonker <citizen.jonker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have updated the MockUp with consideration to the comments received.
Thanks to all.

http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity/welcome.html

1: The side menu can now be pinned

2: the colours and graphics have been reduced to a much more conceptual
level. If something is 'on' it is green, 'off' is white and a system
link is purple. (these colours are only symbolic for purpose of the
mockup concept)

I have not yet implemented closing open apps from the wall.

The revised Gimp file is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306731/Unity2.xcf

and the HTML here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306731/Unity2.tar.gz

The old version can be viewed here:

http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity2/welcome.html

The HTML is getting out of hand to maintain - any ideas on a better
platform for his kind of development that can get more people involved?

Michael



On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 02:00 +0100, Michael Jonker wrote:
> I have put up an interactive mock up of some of the ways I feel Unity
> can evolve here:
>
> http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity/welcome.html
>
> Give it a bit of time to cache - it is just linked html.
>
> The key features are:
>
>       * Fully navigable by mousepad tap (therefore screen touch)
>       * Desktop is utilised productively
>       * Only two modes - 1)Application open  2)System GUI root and
>         quickaccess exposed.
>       * Apps get maximum real estate
>
> For the mock up - in application mode - switching is done by clicking on
> the Ubuntu logo @ top left. This could be a mouse gesture or hover-over
> in reality. On touch it could be a shake of the device optional to
> touching the logo.
>
> I have attached the base Gimp file if anyone else wants to tinker.



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