Looks nice and clean! My only comment is that Download does not look enough like a button. It looks more like a continuation of the header.
The position and size of the button in addition to the lack of additional styling both contribute. Best, -Wade On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.elia...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here are some sketches I have been playing with, for thought and > critique. Nothing's finished, but I was taking some cues from the > static site and the comments I mentioned in my earlier post. (I'm sure > Christian will still tear it apart. :-P ) > > To your point Tomeu, I realize some of the layout might not be correct > given the starting point, but I was working from scratch here based on > what I thought would be an optimal experience (I have no proof of such > optimality; opinions welcome). We may have to reorganize as > necessary; we'd have to see how flexible the templates and CSS are. > > - Eben > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:03, Eben Eliason <eben.elia...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> > wrote: > >>> Hi Josh, > >>> > >>> I'm wondering how we can move forward on this. I see two possibilities: > >>> > >>> - keep insisting to the Design team to give feedback on your mockups > >>> and reach an agreement with them after a number if iterations. > >> > >> Christian and I both gave some feedback on what must have been another > >> thread. > > > > Sorry, I must missed it. > > > >> I think we should go through a few iterations if we could, to > >> bring the wireframe of sorts into a fleshed out design consistent with > >> the Sugar Labs web presence. A few suggestions were: use an official > >> Sugar Labs logo and colors; use a solid white background; scratch the > >> gradients (which aren't part of our visual language); likewise no > >> bevels; and perhaps a design for the content areas that doesn't feel > >> quite as "enclosed". > > > > All those sounds as good suggestions to me. > > > >> We should also discuss a bit the ways we want the site to work. I > >> know that Josh has been designing to an XO-sized display, but there > >> are of course ways to make the page scalable as well, which we might > >> consider. Also, we should talk about the way we want to expose the > >> activities. One approach is shown in the mockup—a single featured > >> activity—but I would actually lean toward something that looks a lot > >> like the activities page on the static portion of the site, with an > >> array of activities with icons and brief one-line descriptions in a > >> grid, so that it's easy to jump into any of a number of recently added > >> activities right from the home page. > >> > >> I actually think the static activities page might be a good one to > >> build out from in terms of a design, adding components such as search > >> fields, category menus, etc. I'd be happy to find some time to > >> iterate on the proposed design add my thoughts into this design space > >> over the next week or so. Perhaps Christian will have insight as > >> well. > > > > Well, what if first we settle on a design that doesn't change much the > > structure of the page from the mozilla one and then we talk again > > later? Would be good to not need to do many changes to the upstream > > code base or we'll have lots of work maintaining and rebasing. > > > > Regards, > > > > Tomeu > > > >> - Eben > >> > >> > >>> - implement your design in activities-devel.sugarlabs.org and ask the > >>> community for opinions before applying those changes to production. > >>> > >>> AFAIK, you will only need to modify two files in order to customize > >>> the look of the site: > >>> > >>> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/css/sugar.css > >>> > >>> > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/img/sprite.png > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Tomeu > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:10, ,Josh williams <joshcwilli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick Weiss. > >>>> I've created a mock up at http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design > >>>> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team as of > >>>> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other > projects. > >>>> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript skills, > but > >>>> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I also > enjoy > >>>> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that need > >>>> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at > http://tucsonlabs.com . > >>>> > >>>> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my skills, > >>>> please let me know. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> > >>>> Josh > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >>>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >>> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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