Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
As part of the greater LibrePlanet 2014 festivities, Deb Nicholson organized the first SpinachCon at Industry Lab in Cambridge MA, sponsored by the Open Invention Network. What is SpinachCon? “What the heck is a SpinachCon?” you may ask. Well, the idea is that there are free software projects that have niggling usability issues. Like pointing …
So, the first time we talked about Hyperkitty recently, I mapped out the current Hyperkitty UI and we talked about future ideas. We also walked through a new mockup for displaying the directory of lists on the server (marked in blue on the diagram below.) Then, following that initial post, we talked about the design …
The last time I wrote about Hyperkitty here, we talked about the overall information architecture of the app, reviewed the UI as it is right now, as well as thought about how to list all of the lists on the mailman server in a nice, browseable way that gives you more information about each list …
I emailed Aurélien early this week to see if I could help with HyperKitty. He said he would appreciate a UI review for mistakes and some help with icons too. Since it has been a very long while since I’ve been involved with HyperKitty, and a few months since I checked out the HyperKitty test …
I went to the Shut Up and Draw session at SXSW yesterday. On the plane ride home last night, I decided to shut up and draw some mailman ideas. Well, I have 16 more… the first sixteen were about as many I thought reasonable for one post. So here’s the rest. These are just thumbnail …
I went to the Shut Up and Draw session at SXSW yesterday. On the plane ride home last night, I decided to shut up and draw some mailman ideas. These are just thumbnail sketches meant to express some ideas visually than serve as a guide for visual layout or any kind of formal mock up. …
Short Run by J.D. Hancock on Flickr (Used under a CC-BY 2.0 license.) The Background Story I come from a background strongly focused on communication; my Human-Computer Interaction masters’ degree was out of RPI’s Language, Literature, and Communication Department and my coursework was built on language, literature, and communication as a foundation to understanding newer …
Luke Macken and I had a little mini hackfest today on improving collaboration in Fedora. This is an idea we came up with this afternoon and I mocked up most of it on the bus ride home tonight. (A 2-hour bus ride home as the post-Boston-flood road conditions and traffic during rush hour were really …