Re: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...

[Hylke Bons <hylkebons gmail com>]

Nothing inkscape cannot do. :)
We just need to create a base library of widgets.

I think what would be more important than the authoring software is to somehow incorporate UI design in the OSS design process.
There are fery few projects at the moment that do this. A good example of this is GIMP ( http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ ). Many people are submitting gimp mockups with their ideas of what could be better. And it works. Many of the ideas have found their way into GIMP.

On the Moblin team, we are also looking into ways of how to make our design process more open and engage the community in different ways.

Hylke

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com> wrote:

Roberto,

This would be fantastic! I am a firm believer in mockups and have been
using Balsamiq Mockups for quite some time now. I am quite happy with
their software.

Stormy suggested we reach out to the usability team to see what they
think.

To me mockups have a significant potential marketing value. Having
documentation elements early is great to convey the potential of GNOME
software.

Best regards,
-Guy

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:48 +0200, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
> Balsamiq would be open, maybe if this makes sense we might consider to
> let people know GNOME uses their product, and get free licenses from
> them. Let me know if you want me to help with this, I know the
> company.
>
> Best,
>
> Roberto
>
> 2009/10/11 Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com>:
> > All,
> >
> > While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies,
> > it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
> > them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be
> > useful?
> > http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
> >
> > Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects
> > we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
> > development cycles because of it.
> >
> > It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
> > user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some
> > of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
> >
> > Please let me know what you think.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Guy

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