2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > that is understandable. when i compare the current maemo look to canola, it's > really night and day to me: canola wins, hands down.
\o/ ! =P > if you could perhaps share what the goals or requirements are for canola when > it comes to the look and feel goals, that could help us make sure that plasma- > mid is on the same page as canola in this regard. is there documentation for > this online anywhere? if not, would it be possible to summarize in a few > bullet points the visual and/or interaction design goals of canola? Ow, we don't have this documentation "on the wild" but I can try to explain: we were not happy with the current UI design of maemo because it was very good for geeks and hackers but it was not very attractive for the end user (where "end user" means that people that really doesn't care how things get done: they just want a beautiful and fast interface). So, our design team started doing a lot of research regarding usability and discovered some patterns. The most noticeable was that users tend to hold the device as a gamepad (as Marco pointed out) and try to do everything with their fingers. Another point is that users just hate waiting for something to load...so what do you do ? Distract them with nice and smooth animations ;-) Regarding graphics, it was obvious that we needed something beautiful and customizable. I say customizable because end users _love_ giving a personal touch: this is where themes come in. And if the user can make it really different (not just images, but animations), the application earn bonus points =P One of the main problems is that we tend to "port" desktop applications to embedded devices but it just results in applications with bad usability...so we tried to avoid this behaviour with canola. It was funny because some months later, while we were developing canola2, iphone was launched and proved this points hehe =) -- ------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza OpenBossa Research Labs INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia ------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/ PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
