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User Experience/ToDo/Product

2008-01-07T11:12:08Z

Frank de boer: /* Impress / Draw */

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{{User Experience}}
[[User_Experience/ToDo|UX ToDo List]]: [[User_Experience/ToDo/Project|UX@OOo Project Tasks]] - '''OOo Product Tasks'''
__TOC__
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== OOo Product Tasks ==
</includeonly>

=== General ===
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==== Look&Feel needs to be reworked ====
Look&Feel in general needs to be reworked to a more pleasing appearance. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...']) J.S. Martin made some pretty nice [http://josmar52789.googlepages.com/thebasicdesign sketches]. Also, Trollen Lord made [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_3c7brj2 a sketch] of the formatting and status bar. No floating box, just context sensitivity and theme -> styles -> minor manual edit options context sensitively. It should provide all the same options for users, but often with less effort and with more intuitive ui. Also the status bar has been cleared of redundant, irrelevant and confusing items (the zoom percentage is still missing from magnifier glass), giving more valuable space vertically.

==== Styles and Formatting not usable intuitively ====
The 'Styles and Formatting' floating window is not usable intuitively. The differentiation of styles and hard formatting is not obvious for a user; a solution could be the implementation of style themes (customizable). (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Provide In-Place Manipulation For Special Objects ====
At the moment there are many ways to interact with special objects like Hyperlinks, Smart Tags, AutoCorrection. The Wiki page [[Proposal_DirectManipulationSnippets]] tries to address those issues for both objects in the document and the document itself.

==== Customizable font list ====
Make the fonts list customizable, so that the user only sees his favorite used fonts. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Rulers on demand ====
Offer the functionality of hiding the rulers and calling them temporarily if required. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...']) Also, Trollen Lord made proposals ([http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_5399x8k 1], [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_9dbn5bc 2]) about possible rulers and how some parts of context sensitivity might work.

==== Modern Color Palette ====
Change the standard color palette to a modern look. That is planned. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== More intuitive color management ====
Color management: Setting, changing or exchanging colors /color palettes is not at all intuitive. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Selection color scheme ====
A new color scheme for selections in OOo. Let's get rid of simple inverted XOR white on black.
*What's needed is a competitive analysis. What's typical for other applications on Windows and Linux?
*What are the system's default selection colors for different themes?
*How do we use the selection color provided?
*Where do we apply it? eg. Text in Writer, Tables in Writer, Cells in Calc...
*What is the difference for windows with/without focus? What about tool windows?
*What about consistency with controls like text boxes and list boxes?
*What about High Contrast for A11y?
;Issues
: [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7512 7512: Selection colour]
: [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=78181 78181: Calc: Highlight Current Row + Advanced Table Formatting]
;Discussion
: http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discuss&by=thread&from=1886649

==== Fresh looking icons ====
Icons: There is an ongoing project on new icons, have a look [[http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy.html here]]. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

=== Writer ===
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* Individual Header and Footer page editing should be improved/made easier (e.g. dissconnecting header of one page with the one on the next page - like in MS Word). As I deal a lot with writing papers and need this function everyday, it seems quite important.

* Also integrating Reference Management software, like JabRef, would be highly appreciated. (or just making the transfer process from the BibTex file less time consuming and complicated).

* Accessing the Thesaurus is far more difficult for users than in competitive office suites. Access to the thesaurus via a right click context menu far more handy than it is implemented in OpenOffice.org. Please see Bug [[http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51258 51258]]

* I know several persons who tried to rotate an image in Writer, but it is impossible. It is very unintuitive to describe: "Please import the image into draw, rotate it, copy it, paste it into writer" Please refer to the very old bug [[http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3545 3545]].

=== Math ===
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* OpenOffice.org Math is in terms of User experience quite terrible. Most people do not even find the floating toolbars in order to click together their formulas. Moreover, there is no help at all regarding the formula syntax. I believe that the idea of the assisted command line is great, but not nicely at all put into practice. An idea is given by the bug [[http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=34183 34183]].

=== Calc ===
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* Calc has a very nice feature to import (or link) tables in webpages to the spreadsheet; however it is not nice done regarding the user experience. The dialog does not display a preview of the tables on the webpage, but gives a list of ALL tables on the webpage (e.g. table0, table1, table2, ..... table xy). Always you have to try out which table is the one you actually want. Please see bug [[http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70062 70062]].

=== Impress / Draw ===
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* ...

Compatibility with Microsoft Office Powerpoint presentations could be improved, because there are some minor bugs that cause presentation layout to distort.

Thanks.

-

Also can you integrate Flash .flv files with Impress? .Flv files are easy to use as video demonstration purposes in Impress.

=== Other ===
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* ...

=== Even More Lists With OOo Product Related Tasks ===
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==== IssueTracker ====
* See issues that result from our last usability test: [http://ux.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_type=DEFECT&issue_type=ENHANCEMENT&issue_type=FEATURE&issue_type=TASK&issue_type=PATCH&issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&issue_status=RESOLVED&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=ux-ctest&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwords&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=ux-all&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&Submit+query=Submit+query IssueTracker query]; before starting to work on any of these tasks, please contact the owner of the respective issue.

* [http://ux.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?resort=1&issue_id=5038,8811,11121,30523,38714,41801,51564,64944,68639,48454,59251,72921,3997,1163,1596,1598,2131,2497,2864,3243,3356,3403,3545,3687,3790,3959,4040,4499,4638,4914,5156,5289,5487,5608,5963,5991,5998,6087,6193,6342,7277,7311,7553,8275,8302,8949,10166,10384,10865,10931,11215,11278,11393,12138,12684,12686,13257,13441,13645,14007,14832,15220,15378,15456,15511,15773,15878,16895,17169,17387,17964,18179,18486,18651,18731,18748,18860,18959,19291,19601,20370,20496,20857,20878,21280,22147,22406,22905,23078,23465,23839,24070,24460,24500,24969,25341,25483,25680,25732,25855,26446,27377,27417,27745,27836,28526,28913,29431,29646,29807,30216,30502,31624,31774,31927,32117,32309,32446,33336,33668,33851,35545,35579,37201,37511,38998,39527,39656,40827,41419,41675,42464,42606,42646,42768,43981,44088,45593,46027,46165,46333,46594,47740,47895,47952,48059,48179,48409,48700,49475,49978,49991,50134,51151,51662,51787,51904,53184,53545,54019,54288,54293,55002,56629,58313,59504,59651,59745,61007,61075,61685,61724,62948,64670,65295,66403,66919,67838,68841,69032,69129,69830,69845,72559,72957,74441,74442,74858,74859,166,366,972,3395,4579,4695,4904,5085,5261,7065,7998,8095,8808,8855,9899,11174,12666,13791,14069,14163,15666,16032,16036,16280,16295,17171,20327,20808,23526,24203,24614,25072,28595,30631,32785,36490,37991,38494,41800,43029,45689,49133,54567,60950,62564,74992,1069,22519,8938,26449,28714,69429,70753,73457,1035,1601,4219,5930,7088,8824,9370,9661,10547,12052,13939,15546,40778,46241,70445,2593,4401,5560,6401,7512,24256,36672,45491,9437,10326,5948,6191,18829,29924,30215,40800,4260,18004,44102&order=issues.votes%20desc%2C%20issues.priority%2C%20issues.issue_status%2C%20issues.priority%2C%20issues.issue_id Issues with more than 10 votes] (static list 20:18, 10 April 2007 (CEST))
==== and more... ====
* [[/Competitor_Software|Competitor Software Analysis]]
* [[/Useless_GUI_Elements|Completely Useless GUI Elements]]

<noinclude>
[[Category:User Experience|To-Do]]
[[Category:To-Do|User Experience]]
</noinclude>

User Experience/ToDo/Product

2007-12-17T19:15:05Z

Frank de boer: /* Impress / Draw */

<noinclude>
{{User Experience}}
[[User_Experience/ToDo|UX ToDo List]]: [[User_Experience/ToDo/Project|UX@OOo Project Tasks]] - '''OOo Product Tasks'''
__TOC__
</noinclude>
<includeonly>
== OOo Product Tasks ==
</includeonly>

=== General ===
----

==== Look&Feel needs to be reworked ====
Look&Feel in general needs to be reworked to a more pleasing appearance. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...']) J.S. Martin made some pretty nice [http://josmar52789.googlepages.com/thebasicdesign sketches]. Also, Trollen Lord made [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_3c7brj2 a sketch] of the formatting and status bar. No floating box, just context sensitivity and theme -> styles -> minor manual edit options context sensitively. It should provide all the same options for users, but often with less effort and with more intuitive ui. Also the status bar has been cleared of redundant, irrelevant and confusing items (the zoom percentage is still missing from magnifier glass), giving more valuable space vertically.

==== Styles and Formatting not usable intuitively ====
The 'Styles and Formatting' floating window is not usable intuitively. The differentiation of styles and hard formatting is not obvious for a user; a solution could be the implementation of style themes (customizable). (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Provide In-Place Manipulation For Special Objects ====
At the moment there are many ways to interact with special objects like Hyperlinks, Smart Tags, AutoCorrection. The Wiki page [[Proposal_DirectManipulationSnippets]] tries to address those issues for both objects in the document and the document itself.

==== Customizable font list ====
Make the fonts list customizable, so that the user only sees his favorite used fonts. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Rulers on demand ====
Offer the functionality of hiding the rulers and calling them temporarily if required. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...']) Also, Trollen Lord made proposals ([http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_5399x8k 1], [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfdgp6x_9dbn5bc 2]) about possible rulers and how some parts of context sensitivity might work.

==== Modern Color Palette ====
Change the standard color palette to a modern look. That is planned. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== More intuitive color management ====
Color management: Setting, changing or exchanging colors /color palettes is not at all intuitive. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

==== Selection color scheme ====
A new color scheme for selections in OOo. Let's get rid of simple inverted XOR white on black.
*What's needed is a competitive analysis. What's typical for other applications on Windows and Linux?
*What are the system's default selection colors for different themes?
*How do we use the selection color provided?
*Where do we apply it? eg. Text in Writer, Tables in Writer, Cells in Calc...
*What is the difference for windows with/without focus? What about tool windows?
*What about consistency with controls like text boxes and list boxes?
*What about High Contrast for A11y?
;Issues
: [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7512 7512: Selection colour]
: [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=78181 78181: Calc: Highlight Current Row + Advanced Table Formatting]
;Discussion
: http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discuss&by=thread&from=1886649

==== Fresh looking icons ====
Icons: There is an ongoing project on new icons, have a look [[http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy.html here]]. (see discussion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?list=discuss&searchText=my+user+experience&defaultField=subject&Search=Search 'My user experience with OOo...'])

=== Writer ===
----
* ...

Individual Header and Footer page editing should be improved/made easier (e.g. dissconnecting header of one page with the one on the next page - like in MS Word). As I deal a lot with writing papers and need this function everyday, it seems quite important.

Also integrating Reference Management software, like JabRef, would be highly appreciated. (or just making the transfer process from the BibTex file less time consuming and complicated).

Thanks!

=== Calc ===
----
* ...

=== Impress / Draw ===
----
* ...

Compatibility with Microsoft Office Powerpoint presentations could be improved, because there are some minor bugs that cause presentation layout to distort.

Thanks.

=== Other ===
----
* ...

=== Even More Lists With OOo Product Related Tasks ===
----
==== IssueTracker ====
* See issues that result from our last usability test: [http://ux.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_type=DEFECT&issue_type=ENHANCEMENT&issue_type=FEATURE&issue_type=TASK&issue_type=PATCH&issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&issue_status=RESOLVED&email1=&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=ux-ctest&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwords&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=ux-all&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&Submit+query=Submit+query IssueTracker query]; before starting to work on any of these tasks, please contact the owner of the respective issue.

* [http://ux.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?resort=1&issue_id=5038,8811,11121,30523,38714,41801,51564,64944,68639,48454,59251,72921,3997,1163,1596,1598,2131,2497,2864,3243,3356,3403,3545,3687,3790,3959,4040,4499,4638,4914,5156,5289,5487,5608,5963,5991,5998,6087,6193,6342,7277,7311,7553,8275,8302,8949,10166,10384,10865,10931,11215,11278,11393,12138,12684,12686,13257,13441,13645,14007,14832,15220,15378,15456,15511,15773,15878,16895,17169,17387,17964,18179,18486,18651,18731,18748,18860,18959,19291,19601,20370,20496,20857,20878,21280,22147,22406,22905,23078,23465,23839,24070,24460,24500,24969,25341,25483,25680,25732,25855,26446,27377,27417,27745,27836,28526,28913,29431,29646,29807,30216,30502,31624,31774,31927,32117,32309,32446,33336,33668,33851,35545,35579,37201,37511,38998,39527,39656,40827,41419,41675,42464,42606,42646,42768,43981,44088,45593,46027,46165,46333,46594,47740,47895,47952,48059,48179,48409,48700,49475,49978,49991,50134,51151,51662,51787,51904,53184,53545,54019,54288,54293,55002,56629,58313,59504,59651,59745,61007,61075,61685,61724,62948,64670,65295,66403,66919,67838,68841,69032,69129,69830,69845,72559,72957,74441,74442,74858,74859,166,366,972,3395,4579,4695,4904,5085,5261,7065,7998,8095,8808,8855,9899,11174,12666,13791,14069,14163,15666,16032,16036,16280,16295,17171,20327,20808,23526,24203,24614,25072,28595,30631,32785,36490,37991,38494,41800,43029,45689,49133,54567,60950,62564,74992,1069,22519,8938,26449,28714,69429,70753,73457,1035,1601,4219,5930,7088,8824,9370,9661,10547,12052,13939,15546,40778,46241,70445,2593,4401,5560,6401,7512,24256,36672,45491,9437,10326,5948,6191,18829,29924,30215,40800,4260,18004,44102&order=issues.votes%20desc%2C%20issues.priority%2C%20issues.issue_status%2C%20issues.priority%2C%20issues.issue_id Issues with more than 10 votes] (static list 20:18, 10 April 2007 (CEST))
==== and more... ====
* [[/Competitor_Software|Competitor Software Analysis]]
* [[/Useless_GUI_Elements|Completely Useless GUI Elements]]

<noinclude>
[[Category:User Experience|To-Do]]
[[Category:To-Do|User Experience]]
</noinclude>

User Experience/Team

2007-12-17T18:58:18Z

Frank de boer: /* Members */

{{User Experience Community}}
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<br style="clear:both" />
== Members ==

{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"
|-
! Name || openoffice.org login name (serves as ''mail''@openoffice.org) || [[IRC Communication|IRC]] name || Notes || Affiliation || Blog || Image
|-
| [[Lutz Hoeger]]||lh|| lutzh || Project lead [http://ux.openoffice.org OOo UX project],<BR>Sr. Manager User Experience StarOffice & OpenOffice.org ||[http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.] || [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/user-experience GullFOSS] || http://ooouxlh.googlepages.com/lutz-2c-cropped-135.jpg
|-
| [[User:Mmp|Matthias Müller-Prove]]||mmp|| mprove || User Experience Engineer and Interaction Designer || || || http://www.mprove.de/_media/mprove/mmp.jpg
|-
| [[Bettina Haberer]]||bh|| bettina_h || User Experience Engineer ||[http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]||
|-
| [[User:Cj|Christian Jansen]]||cj|| chris-j || User Experience Engineer ||[http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]|| ||
|-
| [[User:Fl|Frank Loehmann]]||fl|| frankl || User Experience Engineer ||[http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]||
||[[Image:Picture_FL.jpg]]
|-
| [[User:Gawry|Gustavo Gawry]]||gawry|| gawry || User Experience Analyst ||[http://www.sirius.com.br Sirius Interativa (portuguese)]|| [http://www.gawry.com Gawry (portuguese)]||
|-
| [[User:cornouws|Cor Nouws]]||cornouws|| cornouws|| OpenOffice.org trainer <br>OOo extensions developer||[http://www.nouenoff.nl Nou&Off (Dutch)]|| ||
|-
| [[User:wyrfel|André Wyrwa]]||wyrfel||wyrfel||-||-||[http://wyrfel.reukauf.com Wyrtual Life]||
|-
| [[User:ChristophNoack|Christoph Noack]]||christophnoack||christoph_n||Interaction Designer||-||-||
|-
| [[User:josmar52789|Martin]]||josmar52789||-||Web Developer/System Administrator||-||-||
|-
| [[User:CaioTiago|Caio Tiago Oliveira]] || asrail || asrail || Computer Scientist/Accessibility lover || [http://broffice.org BrOffice.org] || [http://my.opera.com/Asrail Asrail (mainly portuguese)] ||
|-
| [[User:Akashxavier|Akash Xavier]] || akashxavier || SingAlong || Web Developer / User Interface Designer || [http://cafecamp.com Cafecamp.com] || [http://jax.blogspot.com Jax's Blog] ||
|-
| [[User:frank_de_boer|Frank de Boer]]||Frank_de_boer|| T1 || User Experience Engineer || || || http://home.versatel.nl/j.a.deboer/fotoschets.jpg
|-
|-
|}

[[HowTo Join the User Experience Community]]

== Related Pages ==
* [[DomainDeveloper]]
* [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList ux.openoffice.org project member list]

[[Category:User Experience]]

User:Frank de boer

2007-12-17T17:49:58Z

Frank de boer: