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

[Eben Eliason]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. For SoaS, I'm wondering why we're discussing this again after we
> made a choice just under the deadline last week.
>
> The issue is that the impression should last at least 3 seconds, and
> by being present during the dot process we don't delay boot
> unnnecessarily.

We wouldn't delay boot. The logo would just appear during the period
in which the first 3 dots would be shown. The ring of dots around the
XO, then, would just have 3 fewer dots.

> We could fade to the Xo avatar instead of cutting to it from the Sugar
> logo (this version is a sequence of PNGs).

I fear this would look even worse, since the frames appear at about
1fps or fewer.

- Eben

> However, unless Sebastian indicates changes are possible I'm not sure
> we can do that by now. The press release will be published Wednesday
> morning EDT.
>
> For the XO-1.5, I'm certainly willing to prolong the previous thread
> :-) my question really was can we get OLPC on board to communicate at
> boot time that Sugar is "the interface you're looking at"
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Eben Eliason<eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm in agreement with Christian. I think the non-overlapping treatment
>> is cleaner and maintains the purity of the metaphor.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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