Hi James! I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to give you more feedback on these mockups - FUDCon Toronto has now come and left so I have more time. :) (I owe you an interview too, I haven't forgotten)
James Mulroy wrote: > 1) 'I like games! What games are in Fedora? I want to take a look and > get a feel for them' - I think this may be the majority case, because if > they were seeking Game X they'd search for the upstream site. So we want > to enable rapid browsing without a particular goal game in mind. > > > For this i had a new idea :) I have created another mock up this time > focusing on getting a feel for the games in fedora, the idea i had was > to use more of a slide show / featured / spot light area at the top of > the page to show users straight away what's going on in the games spin, > rather than having to navigate to get info. This would also incorporate > the top 10, which i have dropped from the browser. > > http://fedora.splictionary.com/spotlight_and_browser.pngpng.png It seems this is no longer available! :( Would it be possible to repost or even better, to put it up on the fedoraproject.org wiki? You could create a new page for it off of the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design page under our project list. > - Rather than have the sort by drop down, maybe just have tabs at the > top, similar to how we have on the front of spins.fedoraproject.org > <http://spins.fedoraproject.org> - by > popularity, by alphabetical. Maybe. Or maybe just list them by > popularity and provide a search box for people who know what they are > looking for? > > What do you think? > > I think you're right, a search box would be far more beneficial that > lettered tabs. I also think the method used to catalog spins on the > spins.fedoraproject.org <http://spins.fedoraproject.org/> page would > also suite the games spin as stats and a brief could be presented > clearly. It would be much better than a screen shot in a box which > wouldn't allow for much writing to be displayed. Cool, I look forward to seeing more mocks, do you have the time to do them? I am hoping we can make this design happen! ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
