User:Ivanm
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Introduction
Hello everyone,
My name is Ivan, and I am (or try to be) an active member of the OpenOffice.org Branding and Website projects. The biggest contribution I have made to OOo so far has been as the lead designer of the OOo website during the 2007-2008 redesign and the Project Renaissance logo, and I hope to do much more in the future as my skill set increases.
A little bit about me: I'm 21, live in New Zealand and am in my final year of a BA/BSc conjoint majoring in Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology and English.
Current Tasks
- Helping with the creation of a new branding project to ensure a common visual identity for OOo
- Moving the OOo website to Kenai infrastructure
Mailing Lists
Regularly
- Branding
- Website
Less Frequently
- User Experience (UX)
- Native Language
- Marketing
Completed Tasks
- Submitting a design for new OOo Logo proposals
- Submitting designs for Project Renaissance Logo (December 2008 - January 2009)
- Wiki Refresh (June 2008; Progressive changes November 2008 - January 2009)
- Website Refresh (November - December 2008)
- Submitting designs for OOo 3 Splash Screen contest (February 2007; June-July 2008)
- Website Redesign (March 2008)
Scratchpad
UX Ideas
- Transparent Messages
- Make greater use of inline boxes rather than modal dialogs (e.g. spell checking)
- dashboard
Visual Design Ideas
- New fontwork (OOo's equivalent of WordArt)
- Implement an attractive design for Help pages to improve readability - ask about the rendering engine behind the help pages (HTML?) and its capacities (if there is an HTML engine, it could be used to power the dashboard)
- Enable transparency on the splash screen
- Application background (something less dreary) as Johannes Eva has noted
- Visual Design i-Team to represent branding/identity
- Improve the Galaxy print icon
- Clip art gallery and online download functionality
- Visual identity/design blog to inform people of what's going on in the project (both inside OOo and outside it)
- Transparent, minimalist splash screen:
