Carsten Nørgaard wrote: > Hello :D, > > I realize developers might be thinking this is way, way too early in the > process to be truly worrying about visual appearance, however form and > function always have to work hand-in-hand. > > Would now be the right time to provide visual mockups of features to > assist in making a good UI experience for libre.fm? > > Will there be an opening/competition/event of some sort to gather > recommendations for visual appearance/identity for libre.fm at some > point? I recommend planning for something like that and defining at what > stage of the development process it will be the best time to implement a > better visual appearance. > > Because to be frank (all of us knowing this already), the design of > libre.fm does not validate in terms of identity, usability, aesthetics > or consistency. > > A quick read of http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofeyecandy/ > should provide arguments for why this issue should not be ignored until > at the very last moment. > > > I specialize in interface design for the Web, so if any help is needed > point me in the right direction and I’ll contribute :D > > I am particularly interested in making libre.fm visually independent > from last.fm.
Take a look at http://alpha.dev.libre.fm/ and you'll see some of the progress I'm making. A mockup, based around that would be great. A few things you should wary of... * Libre.fm is a free software project, so we ask that all contributions are made with free software. There are degrees to which this holds true, but please, use Inkscape and GIMP, not Illustrator and Photoshop. * The logo is pretty much finalized -- reusing the font from the logo, may or may not work, but it's a free as in freedom font -- please only use these kinds of fonts (not Arial, Helvetica, etc) for any images. * Our CSS handles the fonts used by non-images in the browser. With that said, I look forward to seeing your mockup, and hopefully we can implement it in the site. I am certainly keen to have a great site. When can you have something for us? Best, matt _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
