HIG Card Sorting and Architecture Preview
Now available is the information design document for the structure of the KDE4 Human Interface Guidelines. It includes an account of the card sorting activity during the KDE4 Core meeting in Trysil, Norway in the beginning of July, diagram of the next iteration of the document structure, as well as some possible page wireframes.
Information Design Document (PDF 887 KB)
(Please note I was rushed to get this document out, it still needs some editing and I will update it as needed)
For those of you new to this project and it’s processes: In an effort to provide an example to the community on good practices of user-centric design, I am providing documents for the entire design process of the KDE4 Human Interface Guidelines. Previous documents include an account of a developer’s survey (PDF 601KB) and user research (PDF 1MB).
Great work
I think this will work.
One thing missing is the in my opinion important topic of custom widgets. Many problems arise when we as developers must create custom widgets, and here I’m not just talking of grouping existing widgets but really new stuff.
How should that be done, both from a ui design point of view but also how to program it so that it appears themed.
Hi,
Just dropped a note to say I’m quite impressed with the methology followed to figure out how the HIG should actually be written. I’m looking forward to see the end result!