mockup for user information interface

Wed Mar 14 21:22:50 UTC 2007

oke. now don`t be shocked when clicking on this link:
http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=linuxpersonalinfov2copywk7.png

That`s how i want to see linux applications. when linux is as far as that i
quit everything i`m doing and start organizing linux presentation days. The
icons in that image aren`t made by me. everything else is (in the window) i
also don`t want that clearlooks window, but i didn`t really wanted to edit
more than i already did :P i`ve had enough editing for one day.

additional info.
all the big icons (so the big user icon and the user image with rounded
corner stuff) must get a soft glow animation that doesn`t get boring. just a
random (as in when the glow appears) glow on the big icon. perhaps also a
animation on the oversized "Mark #LASTNAME#"
and the tabs on the BOTTOM!! and in a different style :) and they overap. so
the active tab is on top of the tabs left and right of him and the other
tabs slide in eachother a few pixels.

please let me know your thoughts about this one :D
and i think the edit in place with those icons infront of it is way WAY
better than everything that`s currently being used in ANY operating system.

one bad thing.. making skins for something that looks like this will be hard
:P
waiting for reply`s on this one.

Mark.

2007/3/14, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com>:
>
> Can you list out the applications in particular you think need UI work?
>
>
>
> do you have a year or 2 ;)
> no, jk (or well.. if you want to make gnome state of the art you will
> really need a year or 2 just for the designing and implanting it in coding)
> i`m not in gnome/linux at the moment but i can name some that really
> bother me.
>
> - pup/pirut
> - yum GUI (add/remove software)
> - gnome-control-panel (starts to look good but misses some things...)
> - font settings
> - sound settings (besides the fact that some sounds (or alot) are not even
> changable there but that might also be a library problem)
>
>
> to be honnest.. just everything. i like the smooth layouts/design and
> gnome or kde or any other desktop environment simply doesn`t have that yet
> (besides Windows XP and Vista.. and no i`m not PRO them.. i`m PRO open
> source and highly pro Linux)
>
> i`m making a mockup now with the edit in place stuff.. (looking good
> already) and i`m also editing the entire window to my taste how i would like
> to have it.
>
>
> 2007/3/14, Máirín Duffy < duffy at redhat.com>:
> >
> > Mark wrote:
> > >     What is the advantage of the edit in place over the current label
> > + form
> > >     field model?
> > >
> > >
> > > well.. with edit in place you have it in a way better looking design
> > and
> > > is (in my opinion) alot more user friendly.
> >
> > It's not enough to have an opinion. You should test both designs and see
> >
> > if that truly is the case. You can test paper mockups if you need to.
> > (see http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html). Check out
> > www.betterdesktop.org for more information about user testing. You'll
> > see in a few of those usability testing reports that things usability
> > professionals thought might be more usable were actually less so in
> > practice than they thought (and vice-versa).
> >
> > > perhaps a edit in place with
> > > a small icon bisides it that indicates that you can edit it. thinking
> > > ahead is also possible instead of sticking with the current gnome HIG
> > :)
> >
> > Brainstorming is fine but it is not a good idea to impose untested ideas
> > in a piece meal fashion to achieve progress.
> >
> > > (btw.. i looked over some pages in the current HIG and i can`t really
> > > say that it`s a good example.. it looks like it`s from the windows 3.1
> > > age (about 20 years ago)) things need to go forward if that`s a
> > > improvement ofcause.
> >
> > Did you look at the 2.0 HIG or the development version (there is a link
> > to the development version on that page)
> >
> > Looks and interactions are different. Just because the screenshots in
> > the hig may show a very old GTK theme doesn't mean the principles aren't
> > the same for the newer, nicer-looking GTK themes like clearlooks.
> >
> > >     Do you see how in the current screen, the shortcuts are
> > underlined? How
> > >     would a user know to hit Ctrl + U? Also, is the Ctrl + U key
> > combination
> > >     bound to some other function? (probably)
> > >
> > >
> > > no.. lets just do that the same way it was done before. otherwise
> > users
> > > can browse through the fields with the TAB button on the keyboard.
> >
> > What if the user already filled out the form and realized they
> > misspelled something in the 3 field. You want them to cycle through the
> > complete set of items with Tab? I don't think so.
> >
> > Try setting up Orca (The gnome accessibility system) and try to use it
> > for a day. The problem will become exceedingly clear to you then, I
> > think.
> >
> > > and some more stuff i might forgor to mention...
> > > in the current gnome (all apps) i hate it that it`s not as "feeling
> > > natural" as i would like it to be and that alot parts are looking
> > like:
> > > "quickly done and it works so leave it alone" jobs (sorry if i
> > offended
> > > anyone) but now that the linux community is growing alot (specially
> > > fedora) i think it`s time to spend some time in the user interfaces
> > > aswell instead of only improving the coding (not that improving the
> > > coding is wrong..
> >
> > Sure, but let's spend time trying to improve the UIs that are in sorest
> > need of help than those that are already pretty polished?
> >
> > Can you list out the applications in particular you think need UI work?
> >
> > absolutely not) gnome just misses alot of things that
> > > i miss and i try to improve it a bit by contibuting. in this case it`s
> > a
> > > mockup but i`ve also reported a few bugs and uasbillity issues (like
> > > that thumbnails are way out of scale compared to icons and truncating
> > > long text and another one.. don`t know which one it was)
> > >
> > > this mockup might not really improve the way gnome works but it`s
> > surely
> > > improving the user settings panel.
> >
> > But you admitted it really didn't improve anything, it was just a
> > different look?
> >
> > > o and i took the Live CD because my fc7 test 2 installation decided to
> > > kill itself with printscreen (reported on bugzilla)
> >
> > Makes sense.
> >
> > ~m
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