Re: [Fofredux-devel] Interface Design

[khaled A. A. <bro...@gm...>]

Sorry Andrew, must have gotten inbetween the cracks (I've been getting
hammered by the spammers lately). I can definitely see where you're coming
from. Just thinking about this very briefly I don't think something like
this is a call for graphics and making it look pretty with loads of images.
I would try and make everything fit together in a logical order and would
only provide any sort of image if it was adding and contributing to the
usage of the thing.

This wouldn't be the first interface to a programme that I get down to
designing, as I'm currently involved with two others (one of which is
wordpress) and I can easily feed on the knownledge I've amassed from there.
Let me do a quick and ready sketch for everyone to have a look at (it won't
take long) to just put things in a slightly less haphazard fashion. Give it
a clear direction so to speak.

In terms of new features and whatnot I guess that will come out in the wash=
.
I'm just interested in using a feed aggregator that sits on my server that
looks and acts the part. I honestly believe that FOFR could become the
wordpress of aggregators and I'd honestly like it to look the part as well.

On 2/2/06, Andrew Turner <ajt...@hi...> wrote:
>
> 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
> the
> > interface design of the application? I'd be more than willing to jump
> with
> > two feet into this and start sending out mockups that people can commen=
t
> on.
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Khaled
> > www.brokenkode.com
> >
>
>
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