User:Ivanm

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: