Re: Feedback on Agora Octave design

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/18/2012 06:18 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 17 August 2012 22:34, Wendy Liu<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been working on a mockup for the redesign of Agora Octave as part of
> > ESA's summer of code. You can see a preview here:
> >
> > http://dellsystem.me/posts/agora-octave-update-2/
> >
> > Comments and suggestions are welcome!
>
> Here's my comments:

[snip]

>    * I'd remove the "Sign up" button at the bottom for the following
> reason: it looks like creating an account is necessary to navigate the
> site. That's the first thing it comes to my mind when I see such
> thing.

I thought that too.


>  And since there's no reason to limit users that way, the second
> thing I think is that someone will try to sell me something. If I saw
> that on a site, I would immediately start mistrusting it. Makes it too
> corporational, which lacks the nice feeling of having a community with
> people sharing things out of interest. Most likely I'd just go away
> thinking it was something proprietary. But that's just me.

No, same here.  I'd put in small writing inside or below the button 
something like "privacy protected" or "info not released".  As you say 
Carnë, I too have a level of mistrust in the sense I'm afraid my email 
address will be put on some list and distributed without my knowledge.


[snip]

>    * rather than "Upload a bundle", can it be "Upload your code" and
> have it link to upload both a single or a bundle? At the moment
> there's no place to upload a single

"Upload code bundle"?  With a dialog box that pops up when the cursor is 
positioned over top reading "multiple files in zip file".


>    * I think I like the new Agora logo. Definitely much prefer the
> square as black. The previous one was the same used for binaries
> without icons (default style of Gnome I believe) which many times,
> means an .exe for windows and meant frustration was close.

When the cursor is positioned over the parthanon logo, could lilting 
strains of an ancient Greek lyra be heard?

http://homoecumenicus.com/ancient_instruments.htm

Some kind of ascending pattern over one octave would make sense.  It 
would make people feel a sense of history.

And how about if the mouse is positioned over the Octave logo the little 
square boxes slowly rotate around the O, with an accompanying swooshing 
sound?  Does this require Java?  :-)

Dan