Nominating a creative director

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 11:53:07 pinheiro wrote:
> A Thursday 29 May 2008 09:28:24, Kevin Ottens escreveu:
> > Le Thursday 29 May 2008, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> > > the creative director would take it upon themselves to:
> > >
> > > * ensure there is a defined visual goal. note that this is not
> > > necessarily the same as defining it themself; they can (and should)
> > > make it an effort that takes several voices into consideration
> > >
> > > * coordinate those working on art and those using it in the code
> > >
> > > * communicate regularly about what is happening
> > >
> > > * discover limitations put upon visual elements due to technical issues
> > > (systray is a good example here) and either push at the technical
> > > implementors (coders) or adjust the visual implementation (or both) to
> > > achieve harmony
> > >
> > > * make the "hard" decisions when needed to avoid just discussing
> > > different points of view without any final decision being made
> > >
> > > this is, as you can see, not about power at all but about coordination.
> >
> > And this is much more appropriate to our culture if the goals are defined
> > this way.
> >
> > Just like Chani I found Riccardo's mails scary at best...
> >
> > Regards.
>
> ok :) being honest heven I fond it a weeeee bit scary listening to the
> empire songtheme in the back  :)......
> But I think deep down what riccardo is saing is the same Aaron is just not
> so well structured... So i propose the folowind convince Celleste to help
> me and some others to create a small team that can do that aaron just
> elaborated. I'm prety busy in KDE as is and taking this joob alone would be
> prety hard specilay the documentation bit, (we all know my writen english
> skils).

i was finding that scary too,
this idea is way nicer i think :)

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> BTW aaron I'm taking some chairs on the local university about usability,
> it seems I was needing those to do my other real life work :)
>
> Nuno Pinheiro.
> Civil engenier/icondesigner/uidesigner/OSS fan :)