On Saturday, 27 December 2014 4:04 AM, Gez <listas@...3059...> wrote:
The only aspect of the proposed design that I'm not sure about is the> lack of an unique visual identity. It looks quite generic. Maybe we should work on the brand identity of inkscape first (defining a color palette, choose a nice pairing of libre fonts for headings and contents, some design guidelines and elements, etc.) and shape the website design accordingly
Hi Gez, I totally agree - agreeing beforehand on brand guidelines for the project's visual identity is absolutely necessary.
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 1:02 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
It's been live for exactly a year, while it was in staging for a whole year before that. With two version releases since that first live push last December.
Wow I didn't realize it had already been a full year since the current website was in production, that's great :-)
There are some technical (code related) challenges to a redesign. I'd also like more evolution than revolution for the design, as our data models need to grow with your designs.
What are the technical challenges you have in mind? I have lots of experience doing front-end development for responsive design, but I'm a bit clueless about back-end stuff...
I would ask a big favour though. We have been adding features to the website and I've tried my best to keep the website well designed. But the developer and sys-admin is never going to be as good as an actual designer. There are specific pages that could do with a first lick of paint while things like lists of resources and views could do with some solid designer peer-review.
I think you've done a great job at keeping things consistent - if you want I can go through and make adjustments to tidy things up, or if you want certain pages laid out differently we can make a list.
Outside of adapting the layout in a responsive way, the main things I think would be nice to redesign would be the header, footer, and the home page - I thought maybe we could use the home page to target new users - the current home page doesn't really target anyone in particular (even the banners in the carousel are hard coded).
The developers home page could be redesigned too (currently just a page of text) - maybe just made pretty, or maybe a kind of dashboard with open issues, news, etc.
Cheers, Hinerangi