[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting [DESIGN]

[Laura Vargas]

2017-09-21 10:09 GMT-05:00 Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org>:

> Could you provide an example of a problem with the UI or UX that requires
> improvement and could you propose a better way to handle it?
>
>
I like to think this team will deal with several* UI an UX upgrading*
*opportunities* for Sugar and Sugar-Web.

UI and UX Sugar and Sugar-Web Design meetings are proposed as a continuous
set of weekly meetings for open dialog,. drafting proposals and
coordination events of volunteers.

To integrate community is an important step to secure evolving design
during the libre software appropriation cycle.

I agree, we should identify specific requirements and/or successful design
experiences:

[Example 1] One of many good examples we shall review is the Obvious User
Interface "OUI" Proposal By David Brown
<https://3fc9298e-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/djhbrown2/oui.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cobW-oPdBQQLRXYoMaPM_BqO2hHLpawQ1KgyNMINUUtqLsy8iAzNfRcFC9lH791MpuFxmkaFU-hw44FN3w4zP918OZYu4YDPoLSs9X3YfcuBz-XMYQVNqCeYL1Y8Jff22E7vqqtCI3lDJBC_sxowmSju-uCQeSE8Y3PnuwaIprqfzrsEYsTgVf9pQNbFcv2jGzlqNmC&attredirects=0>.
Although it lacks of mock-ups, he makes a clear description on how to
upgrade the Sugar UI or/and the UX.

On his implementation Suggestions David proposes: "Oui could be implemented
as the skin of an existing operating system that already has automatic
application search and installation mechanisms so that new tools can be
added to the Library effortlessly by the user, without needing to recourse
to a terminal shell".

I think is logic and long time due.

This is feature was part of the "System Design" of the Hexoquinasa - Sugar
Network project back on 2011 and current version was first implemented by
Aleksey Lim and Sebastian Silva latter on. By lighting or un-lighting the
moon icon placed within each activity/context's space, a user with network
connection would install/uninstall the Activity.

Please find attached basic statistics of this feature's use since deployed
2014-2017 and a second chart for 2017 only.

[Example 2] Another important review and suggested course of action was
share today by Leonel Guillen in Spanish:

"Completamente de acuerdo con vos, el problema que ha tenido sugar, es que
no se ha visualizado como lo que es, una gama de oportunidades para la
educación. y no un software para olpc. La mayoría de aplicativos que cuenta
Sugar tienen un gran valor pero se ve limitada a la hora que lo asocias a
un hardware, en cambio debería ya existir  el SUGAR EDUCATION, como
distribución LINUX enfocada a que, no me importa tu "tarro", me interesa la
educación. y así poder llegar a más regiones bajo el ideal de una
distribución para la educación primaria."
​
Here Leonel suggests us to visualize Sugar as a "Set of opportunities for
Education". He specifically suggests us to deliver SUGAR EDUCATION as a
GNULinux generic distribution.

I expect beautiful minds to join the Design meetings.

Best

Laura

SugarLabs has decided to participate in GCI which gives us potential
> resources to tackle any of these problems which can be specifically
> identified.
>

+1


>
> Tony
>
>
> On 09/21/2017 10:20 AM, Laura Vargas wrote:
>
> Good day James,
>
> Thank you for the feedback and the instructions.
>
> 2017-09-19 21:04 GMT-05:00 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>:
>
>> For the proposed agenda [1];
>>
>> a.  Upgrading Sugar UI; could you please be more specific about what
>> you want the design team to do?  This will encourage participation,
>> although it looks like one of the design team may be challenged by the
>> date you have chosen.
>>
>
> Sugar Labs community has made several efforts to keep Sugar development
> packages up to date. Unfortunately (for users) the design of the user
> interface (UI) and the care for the user experience (UX) has not been
> significantly improved over the years. For 5 years, the Sugar design team
> has been dormant.
>
> This is the trend I plan to reverse.
>
> Sugar Labs needs an active Design Team taking care of Sugar UI and UX (affective
> aspects of usage).
>
>
> *My proposal is to reactivate the Sugar Design Team and lead it to an
> upgraded Sugar User Interface and Sugar User Experience. *
>
> Our main focus needs to be maximizing Sugar and Sugar Web usability
> (understanding usability as the degree to which Sugar can be used to
> achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and
> satisfaction in a quantified context of use).
>
> Today's meeting will be a first exploration of who is interested in this
> matter and how we can all work together.
>
> I'll try to call for a weekly Sugar Team design meeting.
>
>
>> b.  Elimination of gender selection [2]; remove this agenda item, as
>> it is not a design issue.  There is already reasonable consensus that
>> this should be eliminated and left as a GSetting for any deployment
>> that needs the feature, so could you please make a pull request for
>> code review?  I never did like it myself, but Gonzalo and Walter had a
>> customer require it.  That customer no longer uses Sugar.
>>
>
> Where the Sugar User Experience starts is totally part of the Sugar User
> Experience design.
>
> Design is not just about eliminating here and there,  we need to rethink
> the whole experience from start to end so that children really benefit from
> the Sugar and/or Sugar Web experience.
>
> That said for this case, I plan to follow your procedure instructions.
>
>
>> c.  Modify main icons; remove this agenda item, as it is not a design
>> issue.  As a patch already exists, please port it to master branch,
>> prepare it as a pull request for review and merging.  Being able to
>> change icon shape as well as colour would be a great improvement.
>>
>
> How the Sugar UI looks like is also part of the Sugar Experience design.
>
> I'll keep this one also in the agenda just because we need to be open to
> other proposals for the "by default" main icon (s) and/or the logic to
> define the initial icon and define curse of action and responsible parties
> to make the calls.
>
>
>>
>> Please also add a [DESIGN] tag to the subject, which is part of our
>> mailing list policy for sugar-devel@ [3].  By omitting the tag, some
>> design team members may have missed your meeting announcement, and
>> this would be unfair to them.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> I did.
>
> Again, thanks for your feedback.
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> References:
>>
>> 1.  https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Meetings
>> 2.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/770
>> 3.  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>
>
>
>
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> Laura V.
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