Hi all, Thanks for your votes and your feedback.
I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : A1:8 A2:7 A3:6 B1:8 B2:8 B3:10 C1:3 C2:2 C3:5 For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would be best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already relate to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We should do some light-weight change in AOO. So maybe we should start consider the light-weight color change when we do the design and avoid to use dark color that make the UI too heavy. So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed before.I use a light grey on the side bar and use a gradient for the section title. And I also align the same light grey to slide thumbnail panel background in Presentation. Because the content area on the center should have the highest priority, the rest elements should have lower priorities, and items with the same priority should be treated with the same way. I have added the latest design(option10) to AOO UX wiki page. Please see the latest design by the link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Welcome to share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks. 2013/2/9 Manuel del Valle <m...@outlook.com> > I like proposal B (I think it's the most "stylish" one, and adds less > visual noise), but I tend to agree with Kevin's comments: I'd like better a > mix between B1 and B3: light grey panel + dark grey title. That way, it > does provide certain contrast for the title, but doesn't draw too much > attention to the panel itself, allowing the user to focus his/her attention > on the doc. > Otherwise, it does look nice ;) > > Greetings, > > Manuel > -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
