Re: [Usability] State of the HIG?

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Phil Bull wrote:
> Hi Kirk,
> 
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 08:36 -0800, Kirk Bridger wrote:
> > A few of us were working on the structure and general approach of the
> > HIG back in the late fall.  Since then we haven't been able to gain
> > any momentum on the project due to conflicting priorities.
> > 
> > We may be able to put some rough version together but I can't say for
> > sure.  Calum is putting together some ideas and we may have more to
> > report in the near term.
> > 
> > Sorry I can't offer any more insight - hopefully Calum or Allan can
> > pipe in with a little more detail.
> 
> Thanks for the update. How much material do people have already? It
> doesn't have to be anywhere near approaching final draft quality - notes
> (even handwritten ones!) and sketches are enough for us to be getting
> started with.
> 
> This is time-critical for us (the hackfest is next week), so anything
> that you guys can provide would be very welcome.

I've been giving this a little more thought. There are a small number of
new design patterns which we are going to be pushing in GNOME 3, and
some draft guidance does exist for these. They include:

 * Symbolic icons

 * Inline toolbars for editable lists (be aware: theming work on these
is ongoing!)

 * Notifications

 * Application naming

If you're looking for something to do, and you fancied cobbling a small
HIG GNOME 3 update document together, that would be very cool! :)

http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/AppIntegration
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3/EditableLists
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/SymbolicIcons/UseGuidelines
http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/theming/widget-inline-toolbar.png

Allan

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