LTP Design Suggestion from Jono

[Michael Hall]

On 05/26/2011 05:26 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 02:47 +0530, Nigel Babu wrote:
>> I'm just linking everyone to the new design proposed by Jono [1] for
>> the Loco Team Portal.  Please do comment :)
>
> To give a basic review of the design:
>
>  * There are too many navigations, the third horizontal navigation
> should probably be in the second navigation space.
I think the main page could do away with the second-level navigation,
but I'd like to see more in the main nav.  Specifically I would like to
keep the "Events" link.

>  * I'm unsure about the picture thing, we are trying to sell something,
> but it'd be good if it was functional too, like a big map of the world
> which you could click on.
I would like to have the Google map with all the upcoming team events on
the front page, I think that would be a great way to immediately show
newcomers just how active and diverse the community is.

>  * Alternatively just get rid of it completely and improve the primary
> logo at the top of the screen. Improves readability and gives more space
> for interesting things going on, especially if we have to see this page
> a lot.
There's only so much we can do with the logo while staying true to the
design team's guidelines.

>  * ReAlternatively we could use the space for event photos, a chain of
> them going across the space to show off recent fun, randomly from
> various events of the past month.
I like this idea, we can pull from the team image feeds we already have
(I wouldn't want to pull from the global events, because they have no
filter).

>  * The up-and-coming events are interesting, but we'd need to decide
> what information should be shown. Just the name with a link? a caldav
> icon etc.
I think upcoming events should be given more screen real estate than
they have in this mockup,  While syndicating blogs is great, events are
where people can actually get involved.  We should make sure newcomers
are aware of them.

>
> Overall it's a good design, it just needs simplification for the purpose
> we want to put to it.
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
>


Michael Hall
mhall119 at gmail.com