[Users] Proposal for a fresh look and feel for Ovirt

[Malini Rao]

Thanks everyone for an enthusiastic response of the Look and feel proposal to update Ovirt. I am glad that overall the reaction is positive. Here is a summary of what I heard from you all as suggestions for improvement -

Feedback on L&F for Ovirt

- Push back on simplistic icons for communicative value and subjective preference + familiarity with existing
- Too much space for resource graphs ( percentage columns on console screen)
- Colors
---Evaluate the choice of greens in the load bars ( too big and too bright and attention getting for something that is supplementary info), the unselected icons and the green line in masthead. 
--- The shades of blue and green don't seem to go very well together - Evaluate for cohesion/ harmony and readability.
- How will the User portal look in the new style?
- On Console, the tabs recede and the toolbar dominates
- Same x is used for remove and cancel migrate  - confusing
- The tabs/ sub tabs now don't look like tabs - It now looks just like text.. Should be recognizable as tabs or Nav items. 
- Make sure 1064x768 resolution is not worse than it is today in new design
- Primary info in the grid should stand out and not drown in all the noise.


New ideas/ features ( Not in scope for now)

Sparklines to give us some sense of recent history for each row
Column customization/ column sorting
Reducing bottom pane with details
Better treatment of Events
Low resolution layouts/ usability issues
Responsive design

Please let me know if I misunderstood anything or if I missed anything significant. I will work with the visual designers and incorporate some of these suggestions and present another iteration.

Thanks
Malini

----- Original Message -----
From: "Federico Alberto Sayd" <fsayd at uncu.edu.ar>
To: users at ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 1:11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] Proposal for a fresh look and feel for Ovirt


> Hi Malini,
> > From the L&F perspective it looks much better.
> What I'd like you to review is the resolution you are using.
> This seems to be taken in a full-hd screen, where I think we
> should be able to support somewhat lower resolution, where
> L&F may have a big impact.
>
> Would you consider posting also a lower resolution sample?
>
Responsive web design[1] could be the answer and a nice feature.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

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Federico
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