AOO UX Design Exploration - Task Pane Content Panel - User Interface Design Proposals

Sidebar Content Panel - UX Design propoals

For frame work part, use flat tab option to replace accordion effect.
For content part, create 3 proposals to show the status of ‘Unfolded/Folded’ in Content Panels, and also created 3 proposals for Content panel layouts:

‘Unfolded/folded’ of Content Panel:
Proposal 1. Grey Title + Grey Panel
Proposal 2. Grey Title + White Panel
Proposal 3. Dark Grey Title + White Panel(Consistent with current AOO definitions)

Content panel layouts:
Proposal A. Gradient Color Background
Proposal B. Simple Line as spliter
Proposal C. Emboss effect

To combine these proposals, totally we have 9 options for Content Panel.

Sidebar Options	Proposal 1. Grey Title + Grey Panel	Proposal 2. Grey Title + White Panel	Proposal 3. Dark Grey Title + White Panel
Proposal A. Gradient Color Background
Proposal B. Simple Line as spliter
Proposal C. Emboss effect

Option 10:Gradient section title + Light grey panel + Simple line separators

Screenshots of Presentation editor with option 10

Sidebar specific panel design

Two design principles:
1.Icon style of sidebar in AOO 4.0. From UX point of view, to avoid the usability issues, we need to make sure the same icon for the same function in AOO and all the icons have the same visual style. So we need to use AOO icons in sidebar. For the buttons which did not have AOO icons, we will use Symphony icons.
2. UI controls in A00 4.0. Choose the one has more user-friendly interaction behavior. Symphony did lots of improvements based on the original Open Office, so the current behavior in Symphony is more reasonable choice, like Number Bullet, Line Style...