Hi again! 2nd day news from our ΠWEEK!
*Congrats for 0.91 version! We’ve seen cool UI improvements (we love the measurement tool feature!). * Being said that, we still find valuable our proposal as our approach is focused not on features but in global usability.
As we promised, today we kept working on our UX/UI proposal for Inkscape. We’ve been working on a proposal to redefine main structural areas and on organizing the tools. This email is just a summarized status of the project. We are writing a design guides documentation and we will publish this extended version as soon as possible.
*Structure*
About the structure, our goal is to define different action areas so it could help not only at organizing the current content and features but at providing a recognizable pattern for the user. This pattern should also facilitate the developers the decision making about where to place new features. We’ve made a working session with the UX team and here you can find a wireframe that summarizes our conclusions.
https://inkscape.org/es/gallery/item/3152/
*Tools organization*
And we did sort of the same thing regarding the tools. Our conclusions:
https://inkscape.org/es/gallery/item/3164/
*So what’s next? *
Tomorrow we will work on a general design focused on visual details. Being this finished, we will have accomplished our goal for this week, that was delivering to you Inkscape guys a full and reasoned redesign proposal.
No need to say that we are extremely excited about this project and that we would love to have feedback from you about all this. How do you see the proposal so far?
Best, Xavi
2014-12-17 17:39 GMT+01:00 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
Hi Xaviju,
Great work so far! I would definitely recommend actually using a copy of either 0.91 pre3 or a build based on trunk for your evaluation. Simply put, 0.48.5 is just a bugfix release in the 0.48.x series... so there are no changes to the feature set in your copy for 4 years. Needless to say you probably can't get a good feel for all that has been worked on by just reading release notes.
In one of the documents it mentions "Room for improvements on gradients", and there have been many improvements for the Gradient Tool in 0.91 (with complimentary improvements in the Fill & Stroke dialog). Likewise, that document also mentions "Room for improvements on groups & layers management" and in trunk there is a new Objects dialog which likely addresses a number of shortcomings in the Layers dialog that you see.
So, that's my recommendation... please check out 0.91 or preferably a trunk build so you know better where things stand.
Cheers, Josh