Application Rebranding - Project Home Page

This home page for the Application rebranding project is a work space for the I-team.

Agenda

• initiation of a I-Team
• creation of a Spec
  • Startcenter
    • Usability aspects
    • lack of color
    • design language
  • splashscreen
  • Icon Themes (Industrial, Crystal, etc)
    • mh: there some coordination with art teams of kde and gnome is desired for some of the document icons with the icon themes
  • Other UI Graphics
    • put on hold, waiting for further input
  • Default Styles (templates, fonts)
    • put on hold, wait for more input from Ivan
    • some relation to User_Experience/Improving_OOo_Default_Settings
    • general definitions of fonts for branding is not in scope for this effort, bedipp: subteam for this, rosana: should be part of the branding guidelines
  • Help Graphics
    • to be removed from agenda, unless Doc Team objects
  • About Box
    • http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=111140

The I-Team

Role	Name	E-Mail Address
Marketing Team	Rosana Ardila Biela	Rosana.Ardila@Sun.COM
Program Management	Martin Hollmichel	martin.hollmichel@sun.com
Design	Stella Schulze	sts@openoffice.org
Development	TBD
Quality Assurance	Eric Savary	es@openoffice.org
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	ufi@openoffice.org
User Experience	<First Name, Last Name>	<User@openoffice.org>

Technical Background

Start Center:

• primary requirement: the StartCenter should give a hand to novices as well as provide a direct access to every area
• secondary requirement: to support our branding / visual impression
• design language should be in line with splash screen and about box.

Related OOo Projects

Coordination with other OOo projects (marketing, artwork, ...) (open, any volunteers?)

Links

• older discussion of further development of the User_Experience/StartCenter

• Branding_Initiative/Branding_Areas