Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
I set this wall of Anaconda mockups up in the office today. Hope I don’t get in trouble 🙂 What I really want is a nice tool for doing the same online. I’ve been using Mediawiki for a long time, but it’s not the most user-friendly from the POV of folks trying to leave feedback. …
Partitioning personas Redesigning the UI for something as complex as an OS installer has the potential to be disruptive to some classes of users, so in designing and re-designing and re-re-designing the partitioning screens for Fedora’s installer, we’d like to make sure you’re going to be covered. Do any of these cases describe you, and …
Last night I had the pleasure of serving on a panel on “Women in Tech” at the USENIX LISA 2011 conference in Boston. The panel was organized by Chris St. Pierre, moderated by Lois Bennett, and the panelists were Carolyn Rowland, Deb Nicholson, and myself. Lois, Deb, Carolyn and I met for lunch the day …
Over the past couple of months I have been working with Thomas Woerner on some enhancements to and new UI for Fedora’s firewall controls. These additions are part of Thomas’s work in adding the concept of firewall ‘zones’ to Fedora to simplify firewall configuration and help make it easier for folks to keep their computers …
What I Do Hi, I’m Máirín. 🙂 I’m an interaction designer with a little open source company called Red Hat. I work full-time as the token designer for a free operating system called Fedora. For me, it is my dream job and it is also the best job in the world. My personal passion for …
What I Do Hi, I’m Máirín. 🙂 I’m an interaction designer with a little open source company called Red Hat. I work full-time as the token designer for a free operating system called Fedora. For me, it is my dream job and it is also the best job in the world. My personal passion for …
More on the Fedora Packages web application project here… 🙂 The problem So one thing that might stand out to you in the package profile mockup for Fedora Packages, above, is that the package has a big, beautiful vector icon from the GNOME icon project. Sadly, we do not have big, beautiful icons for most …
… and this popped out of my toaster. What the hey? The above uses the stock image “White Bread Slice on Black” by D. Sharon Pruitt, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. Want your own miraculous toast? Install the Gimp. (yum install gimp -y) Grab some bread. Grab the special edition black & …
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A new 404 for fedoraproject.org perhaps? (the brainstorming session which actually began in #fedora-devel I think)