Re: [Fofredux-devel] Interface Design

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

Hi Khaled, I left a comment on your site. Maybe it didn't come through?

We definitely appreciate and welcome input for FoFRedux. I agree that
the interface is getting a little mucky as we add more features. And
our roadmap calls for more features that will need better placement,
layout, etc.

However, there are probably a couple things to keep in mind, and
should be laid out by the team for future design decisions. I
personally picked up FoF because 1) the code was easy to understand
and modify, 2) it had a simplified interface that allowed me to just
*read* my news rather than ogle the UI and 3) the UI runs on my
desktop, laptop, mobile phone, handheld devices, etc.

I don't know if this is the case for all the devs/users, and we should
start a discussion regarding this. There are already other feedreaders
out there that do the full-on Ajax with silver bars, etc. (e.g.
Gregarious, fitting name :). FoFRedux is part personal (and hopefully
soon multi-user) feedreader, but also an aggregator (ergo the 'Feed
On' part) to be used for providing feeds to weblogs, other users,
screensavers, etc. So it's also a server-based 'utility'.

Anyways, if anyone else wants to chime in, please do. And Khaled,
perhaps you can discuss some of your ideas before doing mockups, just
so we can all agree on the path we want FoFRedux to take.

Thanks for the interest!
Andrew

On 2/2/06, khaled Abou Alfa <bro...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey everyone, was wondering if anyone has decided to actually sort out th=
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> interface design of the application? I'd be more than willing to jump wit=
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> two feet into this and start sending out mockups that people can comment =
on.
> Thoughts?
>
> Khaled
> www.brokenkode.com
>


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