[ubuntu-art] Design of a complete user interface

[Nick Russell]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 14:19 +0200, Klaus Bitto wrote:
>         
>         I'm not necessarily suggesting we should radically change the
>         UI, I'm just suggesting that from a design point of view it
>         seems odd to have an art team which doesn't appear to be able
>         to make decisions about the the UI as a whole. Or am I wrong?
> 
> 
> I guess that's because usability (» Placement of panels, menus etc.)
> comes before the "mere art" or "decoration".
> 
> So, actually ubuntu-art might just be a glorified color changing team.
> Changing colors can make hell of a difference,
>  though.


I agree that it can, but I still think it would be good for art to be
able to at least suggest UI layout changes (ie, not just in mockups), at
the moment this seems almost to be considered outside our remit.



        Erno
        [szerencsefia]
        Here is the answer from wiki.ubuntu:
        "The decisions are made by our Self Appointed Benevolent
        Dictator for all final say and direction
        for the default artwork in the Ubuntu product."
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABDFL

But isn't it the case that Mark makes the final decision but he doesn't
actually design the UI himself? Which implies that someone designed the
current UI (ie not just the art team, but someone who did the layout
etc). Who designed it for Mark to decide upon? We should be in touch
with whoever is in charge of this to make sure our 'colour changing' is
going in a complementary direction to their UI layout design. If no one
is responsible for this (ie, the decisions are made ad hoc by the
programmers of the various apps, gnome panel, etc etc) then that strikes
me as a problem. Should there be a UI team? - As a separate or subteam
of art to make sure these ad hoc decisions are unified? 

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