On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Martin Sourada martin.sourada@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
the current goals of design suite quite worked for the start, i.e. define what kind of apps/content in general we want in. Now, I think it's time to move on and define some long term goals in terms of *use cases* and *work-flows*.
Some ideas that come to mind: * Joe has been on a holidays trip with family and recorded a lot of content with his DV video camera. He want's to import the shots into the computer, do some cutting, add background music, ... and make a video he can show his friends. * Minori was on a school trip to Kyōto and shot a lot of photos with her camera. She wants to edit them a little (fix perspective, red eyes, colours, ...), organize and archive them, and publish some of them on web in a blog post (and/or face book?). * Ed is giving a presentation on a conference and he wants to prepare some slides to show. * Alice wants to design a font for her comic strips. * Květa wants to draw a comic strip. * Pablo is going to design an icon for his favourite application. * Yujin wants to help with Fedora artwork so she downloaded some wallpaper WIP and decided to improve it.
More ideas welcome. IMHO we should choose a few concrete use-cases (like those listed above), for each propose at least one "ideal" work-flow and then find and include the needed apps in the design spin. And for each work-flow make some sort of tutorial -- e.g. step-by-step "comic", screen-cast, ... -- which we would include in the design suite.
Any suggestions, critics, ...? How does this sound.
I personally believe this would be an awesome thing to do! :) Instead of throwing randomly throwing applications at the user, we'd be able to provide them with a way how to use the applications that actually *fit* these use cases.
I would really like to see something like that evolve, but I'm obviously not the only one anymore who has a say about that (and I'm quite happy about that; thank you Chris and Pierros once again!).
Cheers! --Sebastian
P.S.: Would it make sense to put these use cases in the wiki or maybe organize a sprint in IRC around that?
Cheers, Martin