Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Dror That might work by restricting voting to unique users. I think it will be problematic trying to control groups though - how do you identify a group and associate users with it? There will always be people who contribute more than others, sometimes out of genuine interest, sometimes i

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-06-15 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 08:14 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:35 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > > Hi Jean, all > > > > Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: > > > [...] > > > > > I would certainly appreciate some guidance on this. Would also be nice > > > for some graphic artist t

[libreoffice-design] Re: User Research

2011-06-15 Thread drorlev
Hi Phil, What you suggest (a built-in list of proposed changes to choose from) seems very interesting to me. Personally, as a user, I would have liked it a lot. Still, one thing that bugs me is the possibility of sampling bias. Assuming that there are several groups of LO users that have diffe

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Dror You raise some interesting points - I think that there is an opportunity to build into LO the ability to see a list of proposed changes downloaded from a website that users can vote on and select ones they think deserve a higher priority. This adds a true end-user driven evolution wi

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread drorlev
Hi guys @LO-Design. Indeed I'm new in this forum, but I have my share of Office usage and some knowledge of UI, and this thread elicited some ideas I thought might be worth sharing with you. I kind of miss a specification of the goals of the survey. I mean, everything in a survey is a consequenc

[libreoffice-design] Faenza icons in libreoffice UI

2011-06-15 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hi I am forwarding this e-mail translated from pt-BR. A new set of icons ("faenza") has been created for LibreOffice UI and can be downloaded from the links indicated below. http://kadu20es.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-4-LibreOffice-3-4-213121128 Please have a look. Regards Olivier

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Björn, cool to have you back :-) The topic "user research" gets a bit more interesting, since things evolve in a positive direction with the development. Thus, it would be good to know more about our userbase. And, even from the marketing perspective, it seems to fit very well: * TDF is

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread planas
Bjorn On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:43 +0200, Björn Balazs wrote: > Hi all, > > and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but > hopefully things will get better now. > > We at Apliki, namely Isabel (she will soon say hello) and I, are planning a > set of surveys to better

[libreoffice-design] [Fwd: [us-marketing] Video clips from SouthEast Linux Festival]

2011-06-15 Thread drew
Forwarded Message From: drew Reply-to: market...@us.libreoffice.org To: market...@us.libreoffice.org, market...@libreoffice.org Subject: [us-marketing] Video clips from SouthEast Linux Festival Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:37:12 -0400 Howdy, Came back from SELF with another dozen

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi Irmhild, all, Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 17:30:47 schrieb Irmhild Rogalla: [...] > But first of all, I'm very interested in your survey. Can you give some > more information or send the full version? We focus on the psychological construct of motifes, design-pattern preferences and some dem

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Kévin PEIGNOT
On 15/06/2011 18:10, drew wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:30 +0200, Irmhild Rogalla wrote: >> Dear Björn, * >> >> Am 15.06.2011 15:43, schrieb Björn Balazs: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but >>> hopefully things will get better now. >>> >>

Re: [libreoffice-design] CI Wrapper for Help videos

2011-06-15 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Shawn I've seen your new CIWrapper page - looks fine. The first step in creating a repository is now complete. Best wishes on your project and I look forward to view some of the samples soon. Cheers Phil Jackson On 6/16/2011 3:30 AM, Shawn Beasley wrote: Hi $_, I have added more co

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:30 +0200, Irmhild Rogalla wrote: > Dear Björn, * > > Am 15.06.2011 15:43, schrieb Björn Balazs: > > Hi all, > > > > and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but > > hopefully things will get better now. > > > > We at Apliki, namely Isabel (she wi

Re: [libreoffice-design] Extra-large 'slide design windows' in Impress - Possible Usability Issue

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick Scott
HI Greg, Yes, I wholly agree with your thoughts. The scrollbars should dynamically appear once a user zooms into a slide and the entire slide cannot be viewed on the screen but should disappear once the user has zoomed far back enough to view the entire slide and it's surrounding contents. I think

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Irmhild Rogalla
Dear Björn, * Am 15.06.2011 15:43, schrieb Björn Balazs: Hi all, and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but hopefully things will get better now. We at Apliki, namely Isabel (she will soon say hello) and I, are planning a set of surveys to better understand who the

Re: [libreoffice-design] New Design and experience

2011-06-15 Thread Christian Vielma
Agreed with Daniel and Phil. The search could be used for no frequently used buttons, and there could be a section where the search results buttons can me placed in order to make easy to the user to use the functions he already looked for... Best regards, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Xi Embal

[libreoffice-design] CI Wrapper for Help videos

2011-06-15 Thread Shawn Beasley
Hi $_, I have added more content to the Whiteboard and am now looking for the first feedback on this project. Please drop by Design/Whiteboards/CIwrapper and let me know if you are interested in helping out. The just of the entire project (from design aspect) is to help me create a wrapper for

[libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-15 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi all, and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but hopefully things will get better now. We at Apliki, namely Isabel (she will soon say hello) and I, are planning a set of surveys to better understand who the LibO user are. For these surveys we do need LibO end-use

[libreoffice-design] Accept/reject changes in a marked block [Writer]

2011-06-15 Thread drorlev
Writing a lot in cooperation, there are many occasions in which I have to review or edit a paragraph full of changes. The best way, for me, to do this is to accept all changes in the paragraph and review the updated version as a (new) whole. Then move to the next paragraph and repeat the procedure

Re: [libreoffice-design] Formalized team work structures

2011-06-15 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Phil That's a very useful start! Above this we would have a list of ideas, perhaps in two choices of display order - by date started, and by group (related ideas). This list could be a table that shows the stage completed for each item as well as the originator of the idea. This would t