[dev] Usability and UI in Horde

[Rohan Dsouza]

 Hi Jan,

Nice to hear from you so soon.
As you have mentioned, i would love to work on the standards part. As well
as in the HTML/CSS coding standards.
I have worked for the same in the past for a few projects.

To begin with i am going through the Gnome UI guide. I have found it quite
useful and we could adapt the same to Horde's needs.
Next i will begin reviewing the screens and capture these in form of
a document. Further we could add some changes to the UI. Here we could begin
working on improving the UI, the CSS and the HTML. Once we are done with
alteast a working draft i can go ahead and create the document with
guidelines and standards.

I might need some help from your end, as i am not very technical in
installing and running applications from my machine. Currently i use horde
as webmail for my personal website :).

hope this sounds good.


regards
Rohan Sandeep

 On 4/21/06, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>
> Zitat von Rohan Dsouza <rohandsouza at gmail.com>:
>
> > Let me introduce myself as a Usability and user Interface designer with
> > about 6 years.
> > As a frequent user of Horde mail i would like to contribute to its UI.
> In
> > terms of Design, Usability and interface features.
>
> Great! Though we try to improve Horde's interfaces all the time and
> probably have a very good state regardig accessibility already, we are
> definitely lacking good and consistent design and usability in some
> places.
> Especially Chuck does a great job on improving the interface and
> design, but having someone focusing on this area would be nice
> contribution.
>
> > I view User Experience as a great factor that promotes good software.
> >
> > Please let me know if any such group exists in horde in which i could
> > contribute.
>
> There doesn't exist such a group, only individuals trying to improve
> what we have.
> There are several way how you could contribute. From your background
> it's probably easiest if you browse around the applications and point
> out things that need to be improved in your opinion, and discuss your
> ideas on this list. Please make sure to work with the current
> development (CVS HEAD) version, because the interface is consistenly
> worked on.
>
> Something that's really lacking Horde, and that I miss personally very
> often is some kind of style/design guide, similar to Gnome's UI
> guidelines. I don't know if this something you are interested in, but
> it's worth discussing this anyway. If you are very familiar with the
> framework and the applications, you "know" which elements, classes,
> styles and attributes to use for certain design elements. But we're
> still not consistent across all applications. And it would be a great
> benefit if have something written down.
> If I design a new screen as a developer, I would like to go to the
> design guide, search for the elements I need to display in the screen
> for the functionality I intend to code, and see immediately which HTML
> elements and attributes and CSS classes I need to use. That would
> speed up development a lot. Something like docs/CODING_STANDARDS,
> though not for PHP code, but for HTML/CSS code.
>
> Jan.
>
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