Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

[zekopeko <zekopeko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>

Thanks! Look great. Now to fix the consolidation of design specifications...