Thanks, and newest Ubiquity slideshow mockups

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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H S wrote on 04/07/09 04:28:
>...
> http://ubuntuwtf.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/some-more-slideshow-mockups/

The most obvious issue I see with these mockups is that they would not
easily be localizable. Producing translated versions of the images would
be very fiddly and would take up a lot of space on the CD.

The illustrations should contain hardly any text, and when they do, it
should usually be so small and/or fuzzy that it is obviously not
intended to be read.

>...
>> One thing the Canonical Design team hopes to do in the next few
>> months is publish guidelines for volunteers on how to carry out this
>> kind of testing.
> 
> I look forward to those guidelines when they are published.  Until
> then ... since you are interested in helping Ubuntu devs and
> volunteers become better at design, I though I'd share an other idea
> of mine.  Actually, it's more of a half-formed idea ... nonetheless.
> I think it would be great to have a website where Ubuntu devs can ask
> for design proposals for the projects they are working on.  Put
> another way, it would be great to have a single website (a one-stop
> shop) where interested designers and illustrators can go, find a
> particular project to contribute to, and then submit their design
> proposals -- kinda like what I've been doing with the Ubiquity
> slideshow, but without this website.
>...

That would be good, yes. However Ubuntu already has a scarily large
number of official Web sites, many more than we have people to maintain
them. So maybe the design feedback system could be folded into one of
the Web sites that already exists. People sometimes post design
proposals on Ubuntu Brainstorm <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/>, for example.


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