[Owncloud] About Bootstrap and ownCloud

[Stefan Nagtegaal]

Besides the very good point Klaas comes up with here, is that Twitter Bootstrap has proven it's value for many, many big projects and websites.
If you want to have a consistent UI, with usable and proven UI elements for navigation, dropdowns, balloons, or whatever this is the way to go imo or at least base our core/css/style.css-file upon it.

@Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
Your point here is crap, and doesn't bring any value to the discussion:
Funfact: No usability test participant ever said »strange, this website doesn’t use Bootstrap«. Because people don’t care. Let’s work on real issues."

People DO care about a UI that is consistent, user-friendly and looks good. Bootstrap is bringing that faster to ownCloud than scratching your own itch, because a lot of (usability) test participants are already familiar with the UI-elements (because of they are used by big companies like Twitter, Google, etch etc).

Afterall, I'm not saying Bootstrap brings us everything we ever wanted. But I AM saying that Bootstrap is a pretty solid base to work from, to bring ownCloud a consistant user interface and fix a gap between coders and designers.

Kind regards,


Stefan


Op 20 mrt. 2013, om 15:08 heeft Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 20.03.2013 13:57, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>>  Not many apps have fully transitioned to what I’d say is the
>> design direction we’re going for (namely it’s only News and Notes for now,
>> and even they are not completely finished and working).
> Where can we read and learn about the "design direction we're going for" so that we're able to pick the best framework and design our new route with it?
> 
> Generally it's a wise move to pick a good framework to build on, even if that means to make compromises. You also do not skip Qt in a C++ project just because you wont need QXml and write the other classes you need quickly yourself. Thats stairway to hell.
> 
> Every line of code which is maintained professionally elsewhere is a good one. And in turn: Every line that we have to maintain is one that keeps us off the beach. That is not a good idea.
> 
> regards,
> Klaas
> 
> 
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