On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> 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 > -- > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > >
Thanks! Look great. Now to fix the consolidation of design specifications... _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
