LibreOffjce Design Team Jan Holesovsky <kendy@collabora.com> - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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LibreOffjce Design Team Jan Holesovsky <kendy@collabora.com> 1 / 20 Who is the Design/UX Team Group of people who love LibreOffice & UX / Design No rigid structure Just do design / UX related stuff in LibreOffice, and you

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LibreOffjce Design Team

Jan Holesovsky <kendy@collabora.com>

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Who is the Design/UX Team

  • Group of people who love LibreOffice & UX / Design
  • No rigid structure

– Just do design / UX related stuff in LibreOffice,

and you are part of the Design team :-)

  • IRC, bugzilla, git repository, mailing list

– #libreoffice-design on FreeNode as the primary

communication channel

– design@global.libreoffice.org – Weekly G+ hangouts to discuss

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Design Team Concepts

  • Platform for conflict resolution
  • Results oriented
  • Effective communication
  • Inclusive nature
  • Open to change
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Confmict Resolution

  • In many cases, people have different views what is

better in UX / Design

  • To resolve, we try to find consensus
  • If that fails, we search for:

– Usage statistics / patterns – HIG – building our own now (previously GNOME)

  • If there is a code contribution, don't block it

– Revert in the worst case

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Results Oriented

  • Task is finished when in the git repository

– We are not here to project crystal castles that

nobody would be able to implement

  • Everybody is encouraged to push his/her

improvements himself/herself! :-)

  • Gerrit, the (code) review system

– Needs a bit of technical knowledge; still the

setup is easy, low entry barrier

  • Don't worry, we'll gladly help you should you have

trouble setting it up

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Efgective Communication

  • Avoid bikeshedding!
  • Bugzilla is usually the entry point

– People reporting problems / feature requests / …

  • But that can easily become a long discussion

– Important to move it to a faster media (IRC/call)

  • Weekly G+ hangouts

– Everybody welcome, open to all – Get early to #libreoffice-design on FreeNode

before the meeting to get the invite

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Inclusive Nature

  • Maybe you don't even know you are part of the

design team ;-)

– We collect & report weekly about all UX / Design

improvements that happened in the LibreOffice git repository

  • All contributions much appreciated
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Open to Change

  • Changing user interaction is hard

– Necessary to be careful about breaking of

existing workflows

  • But cleanups / removal of (access to) features is

important

  • If something looks like a good idea

– Do it – and watch for problem reports – Revert if we get push-back

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In Action

And 5.0 only continues the trend...

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Icons: Sifr and Breeze

  • Sifr thanks to: Ahmad H. Al Harthi, Issa Alkurtass,

Matthias Freund, Norah A. Abanumay and more

  • Breeze: A completely new theme thanks to Uri

Herrera (Nitrux, S. A.), Andreas Kainz (KDE e. V.), Jonathan Riddell (Kubuntu), Jan Holešovský (Collabora), Yousuf Philips, and Andrew Dent

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Templates

  • Coding thanks to: Efe Gürkan Yalaman, GSoC
  • New templates thanks to: Alexander Wilms,

Edmund Laugasson, Jun NOGATA, Michael Kovarik, Péter Szathmáry, Zirk

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Reworked Toolbars

  • All the toolbars reworked to contain the most used

features: Jay Philips

  • Change tracking toolbar thanks to: Samuel

Mehrbrodt, Jay Philips

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Improved Context Menus

  • Thanks to: Jeffrey Stedfast, Yousuf Philips, Babu

Vincent, Samuel Mehrbrodt

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New Color Selector

  • Thanks to: Krisztian Pinter (GSoC 2014), Tomaž

Vajngerl, Maxim Monastirsky, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos

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Better Dropdown in Toolbars

  • Thanks to: Maxim Monastirsky, Yousuf Philips, Jan

Holesovsky

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Improved Work with Styles

  • Style dropdowns thanks to:

Szymon Kłos, Samuel Mehrbrodt

  • Style previews in the sidebar

thanks to: Tomaž Vajngerl, Collabora

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Crop an Image

  • Now it is possible to crop images using mouse,

thanks to: Philippe Jung

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What's Next

  • No strict schedule, depends on what people are

working on (and if they finish that)

  • Help appreciated – if you are interested in hacking

the UI, let us know, we have many easy & harder programming & non-programming tasks

  • Design UX roadmap

– Work in progress we know of – Jay is tracking

the status

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Help Appreciated

  • Non-programming

– Improving icons, improving dialogs, collecting

usability feedback, reorganizing menus, …

  • Programming

– Wide range of interesting bits to work on – from

  • ne line easy hacks, to large reworks

– Easy Hacks with topic "UI"

  • Join #libreoffice-design on irc.freenode.net, and

we'll help you get started

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How to Get Involved

  • design@global.libreoffice.org
  • #libreoffice-design on irc.freenode.net
  • https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design
  • Weekly meetings – via G+ hangouts / phone
  • Or just participate in one of our Design contests!

Join us – it's fun! :-)