Hello everyone - The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time, and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort, as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of the HIG and 2) tease apart OLPC guidelines from Sugar guidelines, and adjust hosting accordingly.
UPDATE: The content update is something I'll spearhead myself, as I wrote most of the current guidelines. Assistance is certainly welcome, however, /especially/ in amassing lists of holes that need to be plugged; I'm sure there are countless implicit guidelines we all follow that should really be laid down clearly and explicitly. Ideally, we should be able to answer any noob question about visual or interaction design by pointing to a sentence in the HIG. In that regard, there is a component for the HIG in the OLPC trac system, so tickets are welcome. As I mentioned, a small bit of the HIG (mostly the "input methods" section, but perhaps others) are XO specific. I'll attempt to tease this apart as well. HOSTING: The second aspect of this effort is transitioning the HIG to the sugarlabs wiki, which seems a more appropriate place for the (Sugar) Human Interface Guidelines. I foresee this as a relatively large task, given the size of the HIG and the set of templates, raw HTML, and nested transclusion which makes a quite navigable but relatively complex page structure. I'm not a wiki pro, myself, and I'd be quite grateful to any who have the know-how and are willing to assist with, or even take on, this task. PARALLELISM: Finally, there's a third implied complication, which is how these two efforts can happen simultaneously (or not). Should we a) transition the HIG to sugarlabs, and then update/edit and move any XO specific pieces back to the OLPC wiki or b) perform a complete update in place, teasing XO specific parts into separate pages, and then move it to sugarlabs when we're done or c) come up with a way to work in parallel? Thanks for your assistance! [1] wiki.laptop.org/go/HIG _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
