On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov <questpc(a)rambler.ru> wrote:
* Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> [Fri, 5
Mar 2010 12:15:46
+0100]:
2010/3/5 Chris Lewis
<yecheondigital(a)yahoo.com>om>:
They were
not back in 2005 =)
In case you haven't heard, it's 2010 lol. A lot has
changed since
then.
We have heard. It's just that no one
has cared since 2005 apart from
the aforementioned Stanton-funded usability team, which developed the
Vector skin. Like I said before, if WMF can't or won't dedicate one of
their few developers' time to something and no one in the volunteer
community cares, it doesn't happen.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
When one looks for educational / academic content, rich and colorful
interface only distracts the reader.
The following site is not mediawiki / monobook based, yet the visual
design is simple:
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
There is nothing wrong with it. Actually, there is real beauty in
simpicity.
Dmitriy
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Agree wholeheartedly. Sleek graphics and spinny Ajax loaders
do not inherently make a good design. It's about pleasing the
eye and being as intuitive as possible. We've got a general bug
open[1] for cleaning up the UI and drafting some standards for
future UI work. I really like where [[Manual:Coding conventions]]
has gone in terms of defining what we expect from our programmers.
Something similar (Manual:UI Conventions?) would help in setting
a standard to expect when creating our user interfaces.
On a semi-related note: I'm going to plug The Smashing Book[2]
as a good read for MediaWiki developers. It's got a lot of really
good information on Usability, UI, optimization techniques, color
usages, etc and makes for a well-rounded read for people working
on web apps. I know Andrew and Guillaume both have copies as
well and (as far as I know) have enjoyed it.
-Chad
[1]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/13747
[2]
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/03/smashing-book-its-out-now/