Charles,

> Sangita and I have started to produce final assets for the live
> support app and are planning to make a delivery this friday of the
> basic palette elements so you guys can start playing around with
> them.
>
> Sangita and I would both like to know what the milestones are now,
> what are deadlines are, when you'd like us to show up in Prague
> (January?) I think a solid week working together in the same room
> would make it much easier to wrap up any loose ends there might
> be at that time.

as for us, the GUI team, we'd be delighted to get the following as soon
as possible:

- a schematic of all (or the most important) GUI windows
- later, the actual visual design, with all the bitmaps needed to
reproduce it

the schematics for the pages is needed to even start with the GUI
development... And we should've started it already 2 weeks ago.


Akos

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Charles,

> The styleguide that we sent out on September 30 was supposed the schematic
> of the design that you are asking for - we sent it out then to get feedback about
> its usefulness to you guys, so we could get your approval, revise it and include
> the rest of the palettes.

And it is good so. Maybe we're using the word 'schematic' a bit
differently. I understood your document to be a design guide, as its
title also said.

What I'd be looking for is a _full_ description of _each_ window that
the GUI will have. (Full, in terms of UI functionality.) Something like:

login window: has two input fields (userid, password), has the following
texts: 'userid', 'password', 'submit', and a basic graphical layout for
the window.

> We started producing graphics this past monday, in gif format. We are now
> goign to recreate them as 24 bit png, with transparency, as per your request.
> Please let us know if this is the format you need.

yes, PNGs are great, thanks a lot!

> here is the styleguide again in its current format:
>
> http://a.parsons.edu/~livesupport/styleguide/styleguide2.pdf

yes, and it's a good styleguide, IMHO.

> this contains descriptions of the library and the live mode along with most basic
> elements. If revisions need to be made to the live mode palette based on
> Robert's comments, we can do those next week. Please let us know if all of
> Robert's comments should be implemented.
>
>
> Also, visual representations of all palettes are available here:
>
> http://a.parsons.edu/~livesupport/designs/
>
> the live mode design does not reflect Robert's most recent coments. We can
> revise this for next week based on your approval.

these pages look great, this is the thing I've been waiting for. what
I'd need as a such images for _all_ windows we're going to have.
including login window, file browswer (if we want to have our own file
browser), etc. I'd rather have you guys, who have background in UIs and
usability in general to design the layout for all the windows, as us
programmers would make quite awful ones...

> today we will be sendng you basic palette elements so you can build a test
> palette for us to look at, to make sure everything looks right visually. We are
> producing as many of the assets as we can immediately, and expect to be
> making new ones and revising old ones for the remainder of the project, as
> needed.

great!

Thanks for all this input. I think we're on the right track. Sorry for
my amigous use of the word 'schematic', let's call what I've meant
'layout'...


Akos

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ok great. thanks for getting back to me. we'll start making the
revisions right away.


charles



On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:36 AM, sava.tatic@mdlf.org wrote:

>
>> the live mode design does not reflect Robert's most recent coments.
>> We can
>
>> revise this for next week based on your approval.
>
> Charles,
>
> Now that you have Akos's approval, please move on to incorporate all of
> Robert's comments into the live mode GUI.
>
> Keep the great work,
>
> Sava
>
>
>
>
>
> "charles truett"
> >
>> cc:
> Subject: Re:
> [livesupport-dev] Project Milestones
> 11/12/04 06:52 PM
> Please respond to
> livesupport-dev
>
>
>
>
>
>
> To the GUI team,
>
> The styleguide that we sent out on September 30 was supposed the
> schematic
> of the design that you are asking for - we sent it out then to get
> feedback
> about
> its usefulness to you guys, so we could get your approval, revise it
> and
> include
> the rest of the palettes.
>
> Based on your response we believed that this document met your
> requirements
>
> as far as design documentation goes. We were going to go ahead with
> finishing
> it and producing bitmaps.
>
> If this styleguide is not sufficient in its format, please let us know
> so
> we can
> rework it for your purposes. We'll do what we can to make it as useful
> to
> you as
> possible.
>
> We started producing graphics this past monday, in gif format. We are
> now
> goign to recreate them as 24 bit png, with transparency, as per your
> request.
> Please let us know if this is the format you need.
>
> here is the styleguide again in its current format:
>
> http://a.parsons.edu/~livesupport/styleguide/styleguide2.pdf
>
> this contains descriptions of the library and the live mode along with
> most
> basic
> elements. If revisions need to be made to the live mode palette based
> on
> Robert's comments, we can do those next week. Please let us know if
> all of
> Robert's comments should be implemented.
>
>
> Also, visual representations of all palettes are available here:
>
> http://a.parsons.edu/~livesupport/designs/
>
> the live mode design does not reflect Robert's most recent coments. We
> can
> revise this for next week based on your approval.
>
> today we will be sendng you basic palette elements so you can build a
> test
> palette for us to look at, to make sure everything looks right
> visually. We
> are
> producing as many of the assets as we can immediately, and expect to be
> making new ones and revising old ones for the remainder of the
> project, as
> needed.
>
>
> Good luck, and let us know if there's anything we can do to help you
> out,
>
>
> Parsons Crew
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
charles truett . director . CBTSA

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