Hello all, As we all know, there's a lot of design work to be done over the coming months/year. Recently, we have had a broad, general roadmap proposed, which is a good first step. However, there are specifics that (IMHO) should be decided as early as possible so that we can channel people's creativity into areas where they will confidently have a good chance of making a difference and seeing their work in the hands of LibO's users. So, this is one of the first discussions I would like to continue here on the design list.
Just for reference, here is the proposed roadmap [1]: * For LibO 3.3: Use the branding material what is available and refine it according to the feedback that is available until now. We might be able to provide essential and stable information for the other teams (artwork, presentation material, portable LibO version). --> let's call that "initial branding" * From LibO 3.3. to 3.4: Finalize the branding stuff for "initial branding" and further refine it (e.g. create missing MIME icons etc.) and use it for the software. More important, start working on the "community branding" (e.g. brainstorming, community values, demos, agreement, ...). * After LibO 3.5: Use the "community branding" and for both the software and also for the web presence etc. For 3.3, is there anything left to refine, and is there still time to do it? For example, I noticed that the LibO installer icon comes in only 32x32, which looks bad on versions of Windows where icons are scalable - is there time to change things like that? Between 3.4 and 3.5, there will be a transition from initial branding to community branding, but we will supposedly already have new mimetype icons in 3.4. If the community branding is different, the we'll have a different set of icons in 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. The examples of community branding given are broad, but what about specifics, such as the logo? We've already had lots of logo proposals; will the logo be up for change between 3.4 and 3.5? If the community branding is going to involve such a major overhaul, then I don't think spending too much time refining initial branding would be a wise decision since it's probably going to be dropped in 3.5. Of course, this depends on the time spans we're talking about (i.e., will the time between 3.3 and 3.4 be the same as the time between 3.4 and 3.5). It also doesn't even begin to consider UI & UX changes - can we expect any (bigger) UI changes in 3.4 and 3.5? Is there anything we can start working on in that domain? I don't mean to say that all these questions need to be answered now (or that we need a super-detailed point-by-point roadmap to hold our hands each step of the way). I'd like to see how many of the blurry details can be brought into focus initially so that we can start working on things that will have tangible results soon. Regards, Ivan. [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Work_Items -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***