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

[Sean DALY]

Christian - the mockups are here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo  and the thread
is not for the faint of heart, I believe we topped 60 comments :-)

I'm not sure we can change that for Sugar on a Stick Strawberry, as
far as I know Sebastian is doing the release build tomorrow...

Sean


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Christian Marc
Schmidt<christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I just need
> to see it...
>
> 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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