Archive for April, 2008
Fishie Fishie
Below is my email to Geoff.
Hi Geoff,
First of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in the development of Fisheye.
As I stated in my last email to you, I am very fond of this project. I hope I can be of some use. (I stole this sentence from Ryan)
After consulting Mushon regarding the design style of Fisheye, I have two design samples which are more honorary-certificate look than critical-certificate at this point.
I’m attaching these two files. Please take a look and I would love to know what you think and what direction you are interested in.
the end………..I also attached the files from my previous post.
One Second Film Festival
I was there in the first one, and it’s brilliant!Third ONE SECOND VIDEO FESTIVAL extended its deadline till 5/5/2008
////jury:
The winner will be selected by a formula that combines the Gambling Online and the algorithm DEEP DREDD.
////rewards:
+ In this edition you can bet for the prize-winning video and gain some good money to cash or to spend on our favourite website virtual casino: UNIBET
+ THE VIDEO WINNER WILL INCREASE HIS/HER ECONOMY IN AT LEAST 500 EUROS.
+ watch the Bingo conference for the presentation of the festival (spanish)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=65141081480C642C[/youtube]
////dates:
1 April – 5 May : UPLOAD videos
5 May – 9 May : BETTING on videos
10 May : online PRIZING
////requisites:
_ fill up the application form
_ upload the 1 second video (.mov .wmv .avi .mpg) _ upload a snapshot of the video
e-mail to cURL re: site redesign
Hey guys,
Here is a snapshot of the beginning of the conversation I had with the people at cURL. There’s been more correspondence, but none of late because they aren’t able to receive images I’ve sent them, but I’m figuring that out. Will have some more changes by tomorrow hopefully 
Sheila
fisheye certificate
Im still trying to figure out the info-tech…Im not sure how users write criticism and link to the media sites. For my understanding based on the Fisheye Wiki, there two users, one is the subscriber who only reads embedded critic and other is the member of the trustworthy media crit site. How should i approach the info -tech in terms of different types of users?…..
I have not yet received Jeoff’s response. Should i drop another email to him and stating what i am doing? Or can i post my ideas on mailing list
I designed 2 different styles of certificates and see what you guys think is appropriate. There are too many kinds of certificate-style borders. I personally just want to stick with one style which is neutral and simple and the color scheme will not change no matter what subject categories. Concept of “keeping it consistent” is important to liable news…… However, the idea of ppl having choices of writing different certificate can empowering crits as well. But based on current options, each subject has its own color….so i need to talk to Geoff……..I have too many questions……
Below are two style of viewing the crit.
cURL redesign
Hey guys,
Sorry I missed class yesterday, it was unexpected. I made some changes to the homepage based on the comments so let me know what you think. I may have made it worse though… haha. I took away the underlines, which I think looks better. I kept the blue because it just feels like it works for them, but if people are against it I can change it. I added a quick download button, but they haven’t gotten back to me yet on whether I can do that. I also asked about a video, but they haven’t responded to that yet either. Do you think I should change the color scheme altogether? Let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Sheila
Brief: Show them what you’ve got…
Main focus this week – bring your designs to the point where you actually show the community members what you came up with. This means:
- By Saturday night: Post the comments you got in class to your posts
- By Tuesday noon: Post new designs to be sent to your project’s mailing list / IRC / Forums / developers emails… This would be a draft of your actual communication (write a draft of your email or post as a part of the design)
- By Wednesday night: Work on the feedback you got to your post (design and language)
- For Friday: Hopefully present us some feedback from the community
Next week we will also want to see your blogs ready to be launched. No reason why not to. If you’re running into problems, use the list.
fisheye
fisheye: A web browser plugin embeds criticism directly into the original stories. This plugin connects to a database which links certain parts of the text to criticism of that text, and allows the user to efficiently get an overview of the criticism as well as link to the full criticism. Consumers of news simply install the plugin, and then see any relevant criticism embedded in every website they visit. The system is not based on producing original criticism, merely linking existing criticism to the material it criticizes. Media critics merely need to continue writing criticism. Readers of media criticism need only add links to the criticism from the original article, using the plugin’s efficient interface.
Spaceshift
Trust News:This website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members. Rating is based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context. The site tracks hundreds of mainstream and independent news sources, to help identify trustworthy news providers from around the world.
People Talking about Open Source Designers
http://warpspire.com/tipsresources/design/why-designers-dont-contribute-to-open-source/
aTunes Interface simplification
So aTunes is the classic example of feature creep and trying to fit a whole bunch of features into a limited space. The developers admit to not giving the interface much though other than all their buttons and crap actually have some amount of room to fit in. This is my attempt to get rid of all the clutter and present a simple interface that doesn’t get caught up in all the features of marginal usefulness. The problem witht he interface is that while Programmer types like to tinker and fiddle with options and whatnot, as far as the average user goes, he just wants to be able to play his music, make a CD/playlist to burn, and thats about it. Every once and a while he would need to use of of the more advanced features, but 95% of the time the buttons only serve the purpose of cluttering the interface. So without any more ado:
Above is the Main interface page, as the developers have it currently.
This one is the one with the changes I made.
The following series is a breakoff Playlist pane or maybe a minimimal playlist only window.
Again the above is the original.
And this one is the modified one.
Let me know what you guys think. The mockup is a bit rough, but it serves the purpose of illustrating the cleanness of the interface that I am trying to do.
OLPC icons: second round
so here are the revisions based on what you guys said. thanks to ryan, the pause symbol is now facing the correct way! also, i changed the camera icon so it was super simple with only one centered circle. i agree with you guys, i think it works better this way.
any other insight?
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