Frank Loehmann

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Dipl.-Inf. (FH)

OpenOffice.org User Experience Project Lead
User Experience Engineer at Sun Microsystems

• mail: fl at openoffice.org
• mail: frank.loehmann at sun.com

Meet me (frankl) on IRC

Intro

My name is Frank Loehmann and I am the project lead of the OpenOffice.org User Experience Project. I am a member of Sun's User Experience Team, working on OpenOffice.org in Hamburg, Germany. I have been working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org in different positions for more than a decade right now, the last 9 years with the User Experience Team.

Current Areas of Involvement

• Project Renaissance
• Performance Project
  • Prepare UX part for OOo performance team: Create usage scenarios where performance issues show up when using OOo
  • Work on Wiki structure
• Check possibility to rework/extend own Load/Save dialogs (with MBA)
• Add possibility to remove language attribute
• Start-Center: Allow to call start-center even if a document is open.
• ODF/PDF Hybrid Format Discussion
• Ask for dev support for ODF document statistic tool
• Synchronize size of new statusbar zoom slider for in Draw/Impress/Calc/Writer
• Clarify file type registration (issue 97319)

Previous Areas of Involvement

• Office: Start-Center++ for OOo 3.x [1]
• Office: New keyboard shortcut tab page [2]
• Calc: Calc_Usability_Activities
• Calc/Draw/Impress: Zoom slider integration for OOo 3.0
• Writer: Numbering [3]
• Calc Collaboration Feature [4]
• Calc: New Solver implementation [5]
• Writer: Language Control in Statusbar [6]
• Writer: Cross references [7]
• Office: Refined OOo application title [8]
• Writer: SmartTags Feature [9]
• L10N - Language localization in dialog IDE [10]