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Re: [Design]: Color changes in OTA 10
Hi,
Thank you for your answer, it's good to have that sort of explaination!
Like Wolf, I was disappointed to see the Ubuntu-orange replaced by the
every-other-OS-blue, though I understand the need to have one color per
function :). What do you mean by "focus state"? I've looked at the new
palette, but the orange color is the only one to be in the color set and
nowhere in the palette values.
And as a side-note, I think the Design team should communicate a bit
more. The design.canonical.com blog used to be full of life in
2013-2014, and since then there has been very few articles (most of them
are about Juju and the web, not Touch). That's too bad, because those
articles are very interesting, are a good way to keep the community up
to date and can explain some choices, as the design has seen tremendous
changes since 2013. For example, there was a great article about the
palette, but from a more technical point of view. The same kind of thing
from a design point of view (like you just did in your mail) would be great.
The same thing would apply to scopes. The M10 and MX5Pro press images
–and the ubuntu.com website– show mock-ups and scopes are quite
different from what we have now (especially the Today scope). I thought
this new look would make it into OTA-10, but no… This means both those
devices will ship with something that does not correspond to what the
buyers bought. And I'm not sure that's very good practice… Anyway, I
hope you'll write something about the new scopes when the time comes!
Please Design team, talk to us!
Guillaume
Le 07/04/2016 12:25, Rae Shambrook a écrit :
Hi,
This is Rae from the design team. I understand the new palette may
take some getting used to. But what we've tried to do is create a
colour palette that works in a smarter way and is more robust. If you
haven't seen it already, here is a breakdown of how the new palette
works:
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/qml/tutorials/ubuntu-ui-toolkit-palette/
As for your concerns about components being blue rather than orange,
the reason why we have removed a lot of orange from the UI is that we
now want it to be a focus state and blue is meant to be the
selected/active state. Before we had orange doing both these functions
and each colour should have it's own meaning. And we feel the blue
works better for the selected/active state as it feels more intuitive
as a colour representing activity, while orange could sometimes be
confusing as what it's supposed to represent. So basically, we've
tried to make all our colours semantic. While orange is still our
brand colour, we want to use it in a more concise way, while other
colours take on more meaning in the UI, and hopefully, this will make
it a lot more intuitive for the user.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM, war <war@xxxxxx <mailto:war@xxxxxx>>
wrote:
today I received OTA 10.
I have just one complaint (well, suggestion):
The color of the progress bar and of certain elements (namely the
selection of telephone SIMs for outgoing calls).
I know this seems ridiculous to complain about. But for me, color is a
significant indicator and as I have gotten used to the orange the blue
is harder to read/recognize and it is a break in visual information
transfer.
Maybe you want to reconsider changing the color scheme.
Other than that, I am pretty impressed (My Android phone broke on
Upgrade to V6).
Is there an official way to give feedback (there used to be a feeback
app which I cannot find anymore)?
Wolf Rogner
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