Re: [Fofredux-devel] Interface Design

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

I have a lot of faith in this project. I can seriously seeing it being the
ultimate feedreader. Open source is the future and it's all going to be dow=
n
to collaborative effort. From my part I just intend to make things look
nicer. Make things look more functional to use, more intuative. I'm actuall=
y
working on this this weekend so everyone should have a clue about where I'm
coming from by the end of the weekend.

The idea is just to put things in a particular order and give fofredux it's
own distinct look (I'll say that currently I'm playing around with light
blue/green grey and pink as the colours of choice). You'll see where I'm
coming from soon. It's not going taking what we've got now to the next
level. I've got enough ideas.

As for themability, I'm all up for it, just want to make sure that fofredux
has it's own look that is the norm, that people can come to and judge from
day one before I jumping into changing it. It's going to happen for sure,
but for the average user they're going to be looking for something that
looks the part from the word go.

Effectively once the interface is done we won't really have to be dealing
with people talking about the interface..ever, at least that's the plan
anyway.


On 2/17/06, Andrew Turner (nilspace) <nil...@us...> wrote=
:
>
> Thanks for the info Katie - perhaps my screenshot with "A Christmas
> Gory" also gives an icky feeling. :) I'll get a more happy/better
> looking screenshot.
>
> But this is a very good point. Hopefully Khaled comes up with some
> nice design ideas.
>
> What about "themeability". Of course, it's all CSS and *hopefully*
> XHTML compliant (though I haven't checked), so themeability is "free".
> We should just come up with some examples, etc.
>
> But That doesn't address the overall navigation button/links which are
> growing rather large and scary looking. Gregarious uses tabs in the
> sidebar for selecting b/w Feed/Tags/Categories,. and generic top-line
> button bars.
>
> How much do we want to pull from other newsreaders? Any other
> suggestions? Bueller? :)
>
> Andrew
>
> On 2/17/06, Katie Bechtold <ka...@ho...> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:18:13PM -0500, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > One of the weblogs I read had a post earlier this week asking for a
> > feed reader recommendation: http://joeshaw.org/2006/02/13/378
> > I was one of several respondents, and naturally I suggested
> > FoFRedux.
> >
> > Today there's an update wherein the author describes his experiences
> > trying out each of the suggestions: http://joeshaw.org/2006/02/17/379
> >
> > Here's what he had to say about FoFRedux:
> > "FoF Redux - I didn't even try this. It has the scariest [link to
> > http://fofredux.sourceforge.net/images/ViewFrames.jpg]
> > user-interface I've ever seen in a feed reader. I'm a tech guy,
> > I'm a hacker, but these days I just don't want to deal with
> > complicated software anymore."
> >
> > I'm sharing this here not to try to drum up a campaign to change
> > this guy's mind about FoFRedux, but rather to show what a potential
> > user thinks when he sees our user interface.  It's that bad.
> >
> > --
> > Katie Bechtold         http://hoteldetective.org/
> >
> >
> >
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