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 -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
