[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

[Gary C Martin]

On 19 Jun 2009, at 21:00, Eben Eliason wrote:

> I'm in agreement with Christian. I think the non-overlapping treatment
> is cleaner and maintains the purity of the metaphor.

Well the purity of the metaphor passes me by I'm afraid**, but hey, I  
got the idea from you in the first place with your progress bar boot  
treatment (looked more elegant with the overlap)! :-)

**I thought the goal of the boot anim was a smooth transition all the  
way to the operational Sugar UI.

> Eben
>
> PS. Actually, I find the transition less jarring when there are no
> dots associated with the logo, since it indicates that there is no
> direct relationship between the two. When the dots are continuous but
> the graphic in the middle changes, I get the impression I missed
> something.

So is it bad enough that I should to rush the few frames of PNGs  
difference over to Sebastian tonight (I'm not sure if that also means  
he has extra to rebuild for tomorrow)?

Regards,
--Gary


> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 18:11, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I  
>>> just
>>> need to see it...
>>
>> The two to look at for this are:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4b/Refined-XO-sugar-boot-with-overlap.gif
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7c/Refined-XO-sugar-boot.gif
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>
>>>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sean, picking up on one of your comments below:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> After debating lots of ideas with lots of mockups for
>>>>>> Sugar on a Stick we went with a Sugar logo during the first  
>>>>>> three dots
>>>>>> and the Xo avatar for the remaining ones. We chose variant #06  
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> SoaS v1 will be called Strawberry and we will change the boot  
>>>>>> color
>>>>>> and name for each SoaS iteration, the idea being to aid
>>>>>> unsophisticated users who can communicate version info just  
>>>>>> from the
>>>>>> boot logo color.
>>>>>
>>>>> For simplicity, I would suggest having the logo on a separate  
>>>>> screen for
>>>>> a few secs *before* the XO and the ring with dots appear. I  
>>>>> think they
>>>>> should both be kept separate, for clarity both visually/ 
>>>>> aesthetically, but
>>>>> also semantically (the XO at the center of the screen is a  
>>>>> fundamental
>>>>> principle in the Sugar UI, and having it trade places with the  
>>>>> logo in the
>>>>> middle of the ring is mixing metaphors). Let me know if you  
>>>>> agree...
>>>>
>>>> That was tried first (some of the mock-ups have it that way), but  
>>>> it's
>>>> visually jarring. Like watching some random slide show of logos.  
>>>> Slightly
>>>> overlapping the logo / progress dots / xo gave (IMO) continuity  
>>>> to the boot
>>>> process progression.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --Gary
>>>>
>>
>>