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

[Gary C Martin]

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