On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:39 +0200, Julian Oliver wrote: > hi list, > > i think it may be useful to produce some objectivity on the state of the > art at this stage. by this i mean offering Ubuntu art up for some rigorous > external > critique! as it stands the only feedback we get is from forum rants, the > occassional article > and friends. alot of this feedback is unspecific and lacking the kind of > trained description. > that is useful to the Ubuntu artists themselves. > > one context for doing this would be to introduce Ubuntu as the subject > of a design crit at a Design academy, where a big class of students > would spend a day on the Live CD going through the art with a > fine-tooth-comb covering everything from colour palettes, icon design and > distribution, overall continuity, interface semiotics - from boot to shutdown. > > perhaps we could open up a page on a wiki for them to edit directly, > and provide topics with which to comment and grade aspects of the art > we're interested in hearing about. we could share this output with > ubuntu-desktop simultaneously. > > i lecture and give workshops at a few Design academies around the EU, > but focus more on interactive art and game development using FOSS. > if there was interest, i could talk it over with a department head and > plan a day-long class excercise. i think students would love it - both > play with and critique a whole new OS for a day. > > ideally we'd do this with a few schools at the same time.
I think this is an excellent idea. I'd like add that perhaps it would be useful, especially as a comparison, to do a similar things to people who are new to Ubuntu and do not have any design training ie. an average end-user. I think that asking end-users what they think of various design elements, without describing the reasons for the interfaces and artwork being done in the particular way done and noting the feedback and comments would be good. For example take a 50 year old person who uses computers to remain in touch with his or her younger relatives via email and does online browsing work such as banking or reading. Asking them about: * the artwork they like the most (icon set, metacity theme and so forth) and why * the way the menus are done and their contents * names for features and functions * colouration * accessibility and so forth could be integrated here. Of course, I suppose such ventures have probably already been undertaken, however I want to differ somewhat by suggesting asking them [the user] about the artwork is just as important as asking them about such issues as the accessibility. > julian > Cheers and awesome idea. Pascal
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