Hi Christian, On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Sean, picking up on one of your comments below: > > >> After debating lots of ideas with lots of mockups for >> Sugar on a Stick we went with a Sugar logo during the first three >> dots >> and the Xo avatar for the remaining ones. We chose variant #06 >> because >> SoaS v1 will be called Strawberry and we will change the boot color >> and name for each SoaS iteration, the idea being to aid >> unsophisticated users who can communicate version info just from the >> boot logo color. > > For simplicity, I would suggest having the logo on a separate screen > for a few secs *before* the XO and the ring with dots appear. I > think they should both be kept separate, for clarity both visually/ > aesthetically, but also semantically (the XO at the center of the > screen is a fundamental principle in the Sugar UI, and having it > trade places with the logo in the middle of the ring is mixing > metaphors). Let me know if you agree... That was tried first (some of the mock-ups have it that way), but it's visually jarring. Like watching some random slide show of logos. Slightly overlapping the logo / progress dots / xo gave (IMO) continuity to the boot process progression. Regards, --Gary _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
