Looks nice and clean!<div><br></div><div>My only comment is that Download does not look enough like a button. It looks more like a continuation of the header.<br><br><div>The position and size of the button in addition to the lack of additional styling both contribute.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><div>-Wade</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Eben Eliason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eben.eliason@gmail.com">eben.eliason@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Here are some sketches I have been playing with, for thought and<br>
critique. Nothing's finished, but I was taking some cues from the<br>
static site and the comments I mentioned in my earlier post. (I'm sure<br>
Christian will still tear it apart. :-P )<br>
<br>
To your point Tomeu, I realize some of the layout might not be correct<br>
given the starting point, but I was working from scratch here based on<br>
what I thought would be an optimal experience (I have no proof of such<br>
optimality; opinions welcome). We may have to reorganize as<br>
necessary; we'd have to see how flexible the templates and CSS are.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
- Eben<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:03, Eben Eliason <<a href="mailto:eben.eliason@gmail.com">eben.eliason@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Hi Josh,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm wondering how we can move forward on this. I see two possibilities:<br>
>>><br>
>>> - keep insisting to the Design team to give feedback on your mockups<br>
>>> and reach an agreement with them after a number if iterations.<br>
>><br>
>> Christian and I both gave some feedback on what must have been another<br>
>> thread.<br>
><br>
> Sorry, I must missed it.<br>
><br>
>> I think we should go through a few iterations if we could, to<br>
>> bring the wireframe of sorts into a fleshed out design consistent with<br>
>> the Sugar Labs web presence. A few suggestions were: use an official<br>
>> Sugar Labs logo and colors; use a solid white background; scratch the<br>
>> gradients (which aren't part of our visual language); likewise no<br>
>> bevels; and perhaps a design for the content areas that doesn't feel<br>
>> quite as "enclosed".<br>
><br>
> All those sounds as good suggestions to me.<br>
><br>
>> We should also discuss a bit the ways we want the site to work. I<br>
>> know that Josh has been designing to an XO-sized display, but there<br>
>> are of course ways to make the page scalable as well, which we might<br>
>> consider. Also, we should talk about the way we want to expose the<br>
>> activities. One approach is shown in the mockup—a single featured<br>
>> activity—but I would actually lean toward something that looks a lot<br>
>> like the activities page on the static portion of the site, with an<br>
>> array of activities with icons and brief one-line descriptions in a<br>
>> grid, so that it's easy to jump into any of a number of recently added<br>
>> activities right from the home page.<br>
>><br>
>> I actually think the static activities page might be a good one to<br>
>> build out from in terms of a design, adding components such as search<br>
>> fields, category menus, etc. I'd be happy to find some time to<br>
>> iterate on the proposed design add my thoughts into this design space<br>
>> over the next week or so. Perhaps Christian will have insight as<br>
>> well.<br>
><br>
> Well, what if first we settle on a design that doesn't change much the<br>
> structure of the page from the mozilla one and then we talk again<br>
> later? Would be good to not need to do many changes to the upstream<br>
> code base or we'll have lots of work maintaining and rebasing.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Tomeu<br>
><br>
>> - Eben<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> - implement your design in <a href="http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities-devel.sugarlabs.org</a> and ask the<br>
>>> community for opinions before applying those changes to production.<br>
>>><br>
>>> AFAIK, you will only need to modify two files in order to customize<br>
>>> the look of the site:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/css/sugar.css" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/css/sugar.css</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/img/sprite.png" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-addons/repos/mainline/blobs/devel/site/app/webroot/img/sprite.png</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Regards,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Tomeu<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 17:10, ,Josh williams <<a href="mailto:joshcwilliams@gmail.com">joshcwilliams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Hi, I'm working on the design of sugar labs add-ons with Mick Weiss.<br>
>>>> I've created a mock up at <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design</a><br>
>>>> but I've haven't been able to contact anyone on the design team as of<br>
>>>> yet. I would also like to volunteer some of my time for other projects.<br>
>>>> I'm primarily a front-end designer with XHTML/CSS JavaScript skills, but<br>
>>>> I also know some PHP/MySQL and have a background in Linux. I also enjoy<br>
>>>> creating icons, so if there are any activities developers that need<br>
>>>> icons please contact me. My portfolio is over at <a href="http://tucsonlabs.com" target="_blank">http://tucsonlabs.com</a> .<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> If you're a member of the design team or have some use for my skills,<br>
>>>> please let me know.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thanks<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Josh<br>
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