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Just when you thought two UI concepts (one for the desktop, one for tablets) were enough, here comes a third one: Zest UI, for smartphones. (Zest means both “the outer peel of a citrus fruit used for...
View ArticleLet’s get the overflow menu out there
This is really a first for me — I’ve never turned a concept into something that was implemented, nor have I witnessed, in all the time I was subscribed to the LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org mailing...
View ArticleFrivl
Since the tablet version of LibO is going to come before the phone version and since the Android design site is now up, I thought I’d work on mocking up a tablet UI for LibO. Here are the beginnings of...
View ArticleRulers
You might have noticed that my tablet UI proposal is missing rulers. That’s because I wanted to make rulers contextual: if a user inserts a tab or taps within the empty space where a tab is, a tab...
View ArticleWhy we still need Wave
Observing how people have been slowly abandoning e-mail and moving to closed communication systems that merge the features of chat and e-mail — Facebook’s Messages, Apple’s iMessage, and even social...
View ArticleLooking for an icon designer
The LibreOffice design team is looking for an experienced icon designer to oversee an effort to create a flat icon set for LibreOffice. The designer wouldn’t have to create any icons (although he would...
View ArticleNotice Google Docs’ New Style Management?
I’ve just noticed a revamped style drop-down in Google Docs. Apparently, it’s been there since February 7th. It makes customizing styles simple, plus it gives a preview of the style (font, bold,...
View ArticleMaking the clipboard usable
When I was a kid, I didn’t know what the icon with the scissors did. I didn’t know what the icon with the two papers did. Even after I learned what copying and pasting is, even after I knew the common...
View ArticleSubmit your icons
If you’d like to help with the icon set, head on over to the official wiki page. There’s a new topic to design for every week. Each week, we discuss and refine the previous week’s proposals.
View ArticleCalligra Suite
On April 11, Calligra Suite came out — forgive me for taking so long to write a post about it. It turns out that I don’t hate the UI as much as I thought I would, though I still prefer that of both...
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