icons in action!

Moore, Kathleen E kemoore at bu.edu
Tue Jul 10 18:01:55 UTC 2007 

This is great! In practical terms, what's its relationship to the " Re:
Site navigation enhancement available" thread? I'm reattaching a screen
shot that Diane Perpich sent; it covers "more sites" territory, as well
as offering links to preferences in the masthead area, and Ian and seems
ready to implement it.

Should we move ahead with that?

Kathy



Kathleen Moore
Web Manager, Information Technology Services
BU School of Management
kemoore at bu.edu
617-353-2685
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harriet Truscott [mailto:harriet at caret.cam.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:30 AM
To: 'Daphne Ogle'
Cc: 'Sakai Dev'; fluid-work at fluidproject.org; 'Sakai UI UI'
Subject: RE: icons in action!

I'm keen that the default skins we go with do include the design
features
that members of the community have found increase usability - things
such as
tabs that look like tabs, for example. 

We use the plain tofu Sakai skin at Cambridge, and we've been making a
preliminary list of issues that we think could be resolved with
improvements
to the skin itself: 

https://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/c50c4b08-d361-4ccc-00e
1-98
6782b05aef/design/ui/css.html 

(This is in our own Sakai wiki, so sadly not editable or commentable by
people)

Harriet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daphne Ogle [mailto:daphne at media.berkeley.edu] 
> Sent: 09 July 2007 20:15
> To: ieb at tfd.co.uk
> Cc: Gonzalo Silverio; Sean Mehan; John Norman; Sakai Dev; 
> fluid-work at fluidproject.org; Sakai UI UI
> Subject: Re: icons in action!
> 
> I'm adding the UI list to the conversation (btw -- we 
> probably shouldn't assume the UI community reads all the dev 
> list emails...at least not at the same level as the UI list).
> 
> This is a great idea!  I'm happy to help however I can.  From 
> a design standpoint it seems like you most need the skills of 
> visual and/or graphic designers and UI developers.  
> Unfortunately, Seamus, who did our new skin at Berkeley is 
> heading back to Ireland in 2  
> weeks so we are bit lacking in the visual design respect right now.   
> Let me know how I can help though.
> 
> -Daphne
> 
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Ian Boston wrote:
> 
> > Gonzalo,
> > This sounds excelent, I would be happy to implement anything you 
> > needed in the portal code if you could lead the effort. It 
> might also 
> > be good to pull resource from the fluid members with exeperties, if 
> > the were willing and you thought it a good idea.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > Sent from my Pearl, sorry about the briefness and spelling!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gonzalo Silverio <gsilver at umich.edu>
> >
> > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:29:33
> > To:"Sean Mehan" <sean at smo.uhi.ac.uk>
> > Cc:"John Norman" <john at caret.cam.ac.uk>,"Sakai Dev" <sakai- 
> > dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> > Subject: Re: icons in action!
> >
> >
> > I would be happy to be a part of this work:
> >
> > 1) create a more pleasing OOTB skin
> > 2) create a wireframe skin for customization, perhaps 2 
> more example 
> > skins
> > 3) supporting documentation (media, text)
> >
> > For 1) the choice is to start on the basis of an existing 
> one - such 
> > as the NYU skin - if that is OK with that institution . See:
> >
> > https://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/
> > cc9cb174-7543-48b8-80d8-fc6e80c77b2b/nyu_icons.png
> >
> > Or start from scratch - but with a design. A designer would 
> be needed 
> > for that.
> >
> > The portal markup is in pretty good shape but may need some changes 
> > for 2.5 - feedback on this is needed. The documentation is 
> way overdue 
> > for a major overhaul - feedback, keystrokes and actors 
> needed there as 
> > well.
> >
> > Am assuming this does not go very deep into the tools.
> >
> > So need:
> >
> > - A designer
> > - User testing, evaluation
> > - Markup mavens with strong opinions
> > - Documentation writing, webcast scripting and acting.
> >
> > - Gonzalo
> >
> >
> > On Jul 8, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Sean Mehan wrote:
> >
> >> ++1 on this, i.e., shipping with a couple of skins by default.
> >> Also, in
> >> this vein, a webcast by some plucky designer showing how they went 
> >> from
> >> skin1 to skin2 in design terms, i.e., demonstrating how 
> EASY it is to 
> >> shift skins in sakai, perhaps with another bit at the end of said 
> >> webcast demonstrating how to switch skins.
> >>
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> sean
> >>
> >>
> >> <quote who="John Norman">
> >>> I agree with Chuck. Perhaps is makes sense to consider an 
> >>> aesthetically pleasing default skin _and_ a basic skin as 
> a starting 
> >>> point for skin customisation (maybe even one that somehow 
> discloses 
> >>> the customisation options).
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>
> >>> On 8 Jul 2007, at 13:29, Charles Severance wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A couple of comments about the icons and the skin.
> >>>>
> >>>> - I agree with Glenn and Vivie about the current trunk 
> ugliness and 
> >>>> the icons on the front page not looking very nifty.  If 
> we cannot 
> >>>> make it look better, we should simply disable the icons and let 
> >>>> people put them back in their own skins - currently I like the 
> >>>> default being on so we know there is work to do :)
> >>>>
> >>>> - I agree that the out of the box skin should be designed to be 
> >>>> extensible - it should be cleanly implemented and 
> well-documented 
> >>>> to allow modification.
> >>>>
> >>>> - I disagree with the implication that we should never 
> ship with a 
> >>>> skin which shows the icons.  That somehow the default 
> skin needs to 
> >>>> be bare bones.  If we can come up with a cleanly 
> implemented, well- 
> >>>> documented, easily extended, skin that uses the icons and looks 
> >>>> great out of the box - then we should consider it.
> >>>>
> >>>> The reason is that people looking at Sakai OOTB - form opinions 
> >>>> about the product - and if the skin continues to be so minimal - 
> >>>> people will get the wrong impression about the fit and polish of 
> >>>> the product.  It is sad but true, but the visual impact of the 
> >>>> default skin means a lot to a *lot* of people - sad sad 
> sad but oh 
> >>>> so true.
> >>>>
> >>>> So I would like to keep an open mind about a future default skin 
> >>>> that does include the icons - with the agreement that 
> the current 
> >>>> state of icons is most easily fixed by turning off the 
> icons OOTB - 
> >>>> or perhaps simply disabling the "iframe/web content icon".
> >>>>
> >>>> Charles Severance
> >>>> csev at umich.edu www.dr-chuck.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 7, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Vivie Sinou wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I sure hope this doesn't pop up in Sakai OOTB in a 
> future release
> >>>>> - not as
> >>>>> the only skin option, at any rate.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A couple of years ago, a group worked very hard to create a 
> >>>>> generic / vanilla-flavor skin that is easy to customize 
> for local 
> >>>>> brands / implementations. Please keep a simple, vanilla 
> skin for 
> >>>>> Sakai OOTB, and if folks (whoever) think that another 
> with icons 
> >>>>> and additional styles will appeal to others, offer a secondary 
> >>>>> option.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Vivie
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: Glenn R. Golden [mailto:ggolden at umich.edu]
> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:00 AM
> >>>>>> To: Sakai Dev
> >>>>>> Subject: icons in action!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Does anyone else think that this (the icons on the 
> gateway page 
> >>>>>> in the trunk) looks sort of silly?  (follow the link 
> below to see 
> >>>>>> that attached image)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm not sure which of the following contributes mostly to this:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - the formatting
> >>>>>> - the redundancy
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - Glenn
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Glenn R. Golden
> >>>>>> Software Architect, University Of Michigan ggolden at umich.edu
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> pastedGraphic.png
> >>>>>> https://collab.sakaiproject.org/access/content/attachment/07ce
> >>>>>> 7142-5966-4caa-8072-c67629e4e3c6/pastedGraphic.png
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