Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
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 …
I have seen a vision of the future, and this is what I saw: Why would Beefy be targeting the panda with a laser gun? Why is the panda glowing green? How did this situation come about? What happens next? Your mission! It’s a contest. 🙂 Come up with the best story to go with …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A new 404 for fedoraproject.org perhaps? (the brainstorming session which actually began in #fedora-devel I think)
Some scribbles from a discussion in #anaconda with dlehman where we pondered over the overall flow / navigation of the advanced partitioning screen mockups in Fedora’s installer after showing them to Spot and lmacken and uncovering some issues. Will this go anywhere? No idea. We’re working it. What might be more interesting to you at …
Some scribbles from a discussion in #anaconda with dlehman where we pondered over the overall flow / navigation of the advanced partitioning screen mockups in Fedora’s installer after showing them to Spot and lmacken and uncovering some issues. Will this go anywhere? No idea. We’re working it. What might be more interesting to you at …