Re: [tdf-discuss] [UI] Splash screen

Hi Christoph,

2010/10/30 Christoph Noack <christoph.noack@documentfoundation.org>

> Hi Ivan, Mirek, all!
>
> I really would like to overcome my previous "telegram" style messages
> and to focus on topics like that I'm very much interested in. Sadly,
> time is still very limited, so (a bit late) a big thank you to all who
> invest a lot of time to shape these ideas (some of these are great, e.g.
> the "page is an object" idea).
>
> Back to the splash screen ...
>
>
> Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 19:50 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.:
> > Hi Mirek,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen:
> > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/.
> >
> > It's fantastic to see your creativity being unleashed here. I really
> > hope we can see some of these ideas in LibreOffice in the near future.
> > The start centre and splash screen are topics that I'm really
> > interested in, especially since Christoph put forward a hybrid
> > proposal on the OOo wiki page he just mentioned.
>
> Aehm, do you mean this one?
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:ChristophNoack/Drafts/WelcomeCenter_2010


I really like the way your Welcome Center is organized. It'd be nice to have
all these non-editing windows have the same uniform chrome.

> > > The Start Center would lose the standard chrome of LibO and stand as a
> very
> > > lightweight application that opens while LibO loads, removing the need
> for a
> > > splash screen.
> > > For individual applications (where the Start Center is skipped over),
> there
> > > would be an undistracting notification that the app is opening.
> >
> > The *perceived* speed of startup is something that should really be
> > considered by the designers here.
> [...]
>
> > I wonder if a similar analysis could be done with LibreOffice to
> > identify design strategies that enhance the user experience (felt
> > experience) of LibreOffice's start up.
>
> Maybe serving as a starting point: There has been (much) work that has
> been done within OOo already. There is a dedicated project for improving
> the performance. For example, "we" (UX) did a survey to identify general
> problems concerning speed. And Frank worked on something called "User
> Experience Index" to rate "perceived" speed of the software.
>
> The project can be found here:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Performance
>
> I have some ideas how this could be linked with automated testing to
> check perceived speed/slowness ... but maybe later :-)
>
> > Mirek, you've put forward some
> > great ideas and possible solutions, but I think we should analyse the
> > problem in more depth first (if you have any data or did any research
> > on this, please share it with us).
>
> Again, a starting point? Along with my "Welcome Center 2010" idea, there
> has been some thinking on how the next StartCenter in OOo should be
> revised. Frank (the same person, UX team) collected information on the
> start-up process. (Oh, I see in the wiki page versioning that Mirek
> already helped with that ... cool!)
>
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Projects/Start-up_process
>
>
> So I wonder whether there is some interest to form some kind of interest
> group or even a dedicated UX team. At least, there might be better
> places than [tdf-discuss] ... or?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>
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