Hi Marc, thanks a lot to the whole team! And of course, thanks for the changelog etc. I would love to provide detailed feedback, but I really miss the time at the moment ... so here just a few "instant thoughts" from a UX perspective (that usually means that we mainly refer to those items that require tweaking, we mostly skip the positive stuff *g*).
Drupal Frontpage ... Information Design * Visual Hierarchy * The most important element (Download) button is hard to locate. It misses the "conventional" design being green and at a prominent position. * The groups/elements miss space to get better separation. As people say "space is information". * The header graphics (colorful) moves away the attention to the more important stuff. It also seems to be animated ... so please either keep the site as clean as possible and keep the larger header graphic, or remove the visual intensity of the header graphic. * The text and element sizes are somehow unusual. Some of the text is very large, some of the text is tiny. * Editorial Content * Text like "I need help" may be true, but only few users want to hear that they are helpless :-) * The "I ..." have been a matter of debate for a long time on the OOo website. The "I ..." doesn't add value and doesn't help to feel "part of the community". * The Web 2.0 stuff (great idea...) seems a bit scary with the square brackets. And, it seems to use a lot of space ... Layout * The layout requires intensive scrolling - some of the interesting items for those who are not aware of the activity within the community, might miss the news and the blogs. Although I do like its presentation. * Some items are visually connected to others, although there is no information link - e.g. the search box connected to the front graphics. Visual Design * The visual design doesn't fit together ... for example, the logo at the top got some mirroring (why?), but the remaining items on the page show drop shadows - with light from directly above. the other items show shadows with light direction "front". Some more items are just flat. The text in the header graphics shows shadows with light from the right side ... it doesn't create a harmonic and consistent impression. Another example: Some of the object edges are rounded, some are "sharp". * In most cases, websites (and UIs) do look good, if they are aligned to a certain grid. Within the current proposal, most of the item groups are unrelated / not aligned with other items. This would create more "visual stability" and predictability (where to look for what). Accessibility: * Elements sometimes do have limited contrast. For example, the text in the header graphic is hard to read (white on bright green). The "breadcrumb navigation" is black (small font) on gray background. Okay, time is up :-) I hope this criticism is perceived to be helpful instead of annoying. However, I'm looking forward to see some more information with regard to the community goals, and thus, the visual language. By the way, maybe I have discussed some things not being meant for discussion. I recommend to use the "Fidelity Matrix" to improve such kinds of discussions. I blogged about it here: http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2010/05/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html Mmh, I just saw the mail by Ivan - so feel invited to discuss that with some more people on the design list. Michael and web-site team, sorry for mis-using this thread - I still owe you some information on the UX workflows and tools. Yet to come :-( But, has there been any consideration of implementing website analytics / statistics to further improve the page once it is online? Bye, Christoph Am Dienstag, den 23.11.2010, 06:57 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: > We have put these up on the wiki for you to see and discuss. We need > comments on both the Frontpage and general pages theme. Feel free to > question. We are hard at work getting the site ready for early 2011. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***