Xin, Thanks very much for your summary! And the option 10 looks very good! I suggest we move forward to get a development build out. So that not only we can get more UX feedback, not also we can early start FVT for this big new feature.
- Shenfeng (Simon) 2013/2/21 Xin Li <lxnice...@gmail.com> > 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 >
