Hi James!
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to give you more feedback on these
mockups - FUDCon Toronto has now come and left so I have more time. :)
(I owe you an interview too, I haven't forgotten)
James Mulroy wrote:
1) 'I like games! What games are in Fedora? I want to take a
look and
get a feel for them' - I think this may be the majority case, because if
they were seeking Game X they'd search for the upstream site. So we want
to enable rapid browsing without a particular goal game in mind.
For this i had a new idea :) I have created another mock up this time
focusing on getting a feel for the games in fedora, the idea i had was
to use more of a slide show / featured / spot light area at the top of
the page to show users straight away what's going on in the games spin,
rather than having to navigate to get info. This would also incorporate
the top 10, which i have dropped from the browser.
http://fedora.splictionary.com/spotlight_and_browser.pngpng.png
It seems this is no longer available! :(
Would it be possible to repost or even better, to put it up on the
fedoraproject.org wiki? You could create a new page for it off of the
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design page under our project list.
- Rather than have the sort by drop down, maybe just have tabs at
the
top, similar to how we have on the front of
spins.fedoraproject.org
<
http://spins.fedoraproject.org> - by
popularity, by alphabetical. Maybe. Or maybe just list them by
popularity and provide a search box for people who know what they are
looking for?
What do you think?
I think you're right, a search box would be far more beneficial that
lettered tabs. I also think the method used to catalog spins on the
spins.fedoraproject.org <
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/> page would
also suite the games spin as stats and a brief could be presented
clearly. It would be much better than a screen shot in a box which
wouldn't allow for much writing to be displayed.
Cool, I look forward to seeing more mocks, do you have the time to do
them? I am hoping we can make this design happen!
~m