Hi Eben, these look great--very promising, and a nice way to envision extending the visual language of the static web site to other Sugar Labs microsites. I'll take a closer look at the layout and typographic treatments tonight, more soon...
Christian 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 >>>> >>> >> > -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel