stakanov@freenet.de schreef op 28-12-2015 11:51:
There is probably a lot of blabla going on in the design community as to > how wonderful they are, but yeah.
Dear Xen, please enjoy this classic about designers and desired design. I think it is since years a noteworthy peace of humorist approach of a real problem.
Haha, I laughed my ass off :P. Amazing that the girl kept it up. But the guy was a prick. He knew perfectly what the girl wanted, so what's the point? She knew he was capable, and she was a bit arrogant. And he ridiculed her. "I have to leave in 10 minutes and I still have photocopies to make." That's no way to ask for help, of course. Apparently it would have taken him 3 minutes to create the poster ;-). Still, I would have said "Well, what's in it for me? ;D :P". The front page is professionally done, I just don't agree with this profession. It is a trend of the last 2 years, not really longer than that. I used to refer people to the Dropbox.com front page. It is of that style: https://www.dropbox.com. - No information - Just advertizing - "What we want you to believe" - nothing the visitor can base his/her own opinion on - such a lack of information that there are only two choices: leave, or enter without a clue as to why you are doing it. - text is too big to read as being meant for information - not meant for existing users, because the registration fields are much more dominant than the login field/link - it's a sales mechanism using a dirty trick - only really works because it seems pretty and because of brand recognition - people probably don't really read the thing. - counterproductive in attracting customers/users - not usable for existing users - rotten to the core.
Other distribution (I recall Arch) seem to do better but then of course a lot is about personal taste, the material once uses and the available collaborators.
Arch is a wiki that is so good (I guess) that whatever you are looking for (in Google) high chances that you will end up on the Arch wiki. I would even say the Arch wiki is the most valuable element of what they do ;-). I mean, if you want to do something special in Linux, arch has it covered (with howto). I must say their main page is not great either, and I wouldn't know how to navigate it; but I just always arrive their through Google.
So about wiki having to be "messy" I do not agree so much. But too much depth in menus...or not intuitive pages are a known problem.
If it is going to be a community thing, it is going to be messy at least to a certain extent, because it is going to be organic. A bit like: if people do as they wish, they will have different gardens. A neighbourhood can only have identical looking gardens if people don't do as they wish. I would instantly start editing something like that, but then I'm not the kind of person or in any kind of position to do that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org