[kde-guidelines] Visual Design Guidelines + HIG

[Andrew Lake]

Heiko,

I put the first proposal for the Visual Design Guidelines on my userbase
wiki here:
http://userbase.kde.org/User:Andrew/VisualDesignGuide

To integrate with the HIG, we'd like to propose the following:
1. The definition of the HIG Presentation section on
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/About is the definiition of
a visual design guide. Would it be ok if we replaced the Presentation
section and its structure with the proposed VIsual Design Guide?
2. We received some early feedback from Thomas Pfeiffer that the Overview
section of the proposed Visual Design Guide might be appropriate at a
higher level in HIG. That's ok with us if it's ok here. Would it be ok to
put a link to the Overview section or its contents (Design Goals, Design
Principles) under the Introduction section?
3. Thomas also mentioned that the Mockup Toolkit section might be
appropriate at a higher level. Would it be ok to add a Mockup Toolkit
section at a higher level?

This is proposed for just an initial release of the guide. We intend over
time to continuously participate in updating this guide (and other areas of
the HIG) as time permits. :-)

Thanks so much for your help and feedback as we work to get this guide
publicly available.

Much respect,
Andrew


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Andrew Lake <jamboarder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent Heiko! Thanks so much.
>
> We'll start migrating some of what we're coming up with over there soon.
> We prefer integration as well. :-)
>
> Thanks again and please holler if you have any questions or comments for
> us. And feel free to drop in over at the Visual Design Group section on the
> KDE Forums. :-)
>
> Much respect,
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Heiko Tietze <
> heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> that's really good news! You are welcome to either push the existing
>> pages or
>> to add a link to your guide that could be set-up at a different location.
>> Of
>> course I would prefer that integration. The underlying model of the HIG
>> [1]
>> has explicitly room for visual aspects. So far it just references the
>> theming
>> page [2].
>> And please feel free to comment all other UX aspects too. We need your
>> point
>> of view for a complete guide.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Heiko.
>>
>> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/About
>> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG#Presentation -> Style
>>
>> On Friday 14 March 2014, 09:14:47 Andrew Lake wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > My name is Andrew Lake and I'm a member of the recently created KDE
>> Visual
>> > Design Group led by Jens Reuterberg.
>> >
>> > http://vdesign.kde.org/
>> >
>> > You can check out the blog there to see what the group has been working
>> on
>> > lately. It includes the Plasma Next theme, new icons, window decoration,
>> > widget theme and more.
>> >
>> > One of the things we recently started putting together is a Visual
>> Design
>> > Guide. Our hope is to have this Visual Design Guide publicly available
>> via
>> > a wiki. We were hoping it could be co-located with and eventually
>> > integrated with the HIG. The purpose of this message is to ask your
>> > permission to do that.
>> >
>> > Thanks very much for your help,
>> > Andrew Lake
>>
>>
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