Application Rebranding - Project Home Page
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This home page for the Application rebranding project is a work space for the I-team.
Contents
Minutes
Irc Log 2010-05-05 : Application Rebranding - Project Home Page/20100505
next regular meeting
May 12th, freenode, #ooobranding
proposals for agenda of next meeting
<add your proposal here>
Action Items
- Rosana: finish logo usage guidelines
- Bernhard, Rosana: prepare discussion or proposal of design language
- Martin: invite Developer
- Martin: keep Documentation in the loop
Motivation & Goal
pick up Sophies suggestion to create an I-Team to discuss the items listed for Application Branding on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Branding_Initiative/Branding_Areas#OpenOffice.org_Application and create the required spec and work as we do for other new features as usual.
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
- Startcenter
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 | Éric 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?)
Open and Answered Issues
Links
- older discussion of further development of the User Experience/StartCenter