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

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I just  
need to see it...

Thanks,

Christian

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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
>