Design update plans

Here we can plan for a gnome.org design update.

There is a discussion about this on the Engagement Team mailing list.

Notes from discussion

• Modern design that displays confidence
• Feature mission
• Community

  • Use single-sign in system to acess community acess? (we can use persona for this, developed by Mozilla).

  • Mozillians.org is a open source web dictionary.

  • Include gamification like http://www.openbadges.org/[badges?

    • Takes a lot of resources to implement

    • Implement AskWebbApp?

• Get involved page redesign

  • Bastian have some ideas

  • Mozilla are currenly redesign thier get involved page

    • have three different prototypes a, b, c each with a different distinctive look and feel

• Video integration
• Call for brave design, and to take advantage of HTML5
• Friendly design
• We love our footer art
• Some calls for iterate on current design rather then comming up with a new one

  • WordPress put certain limitations on what we can do.

• Target 3.14 (late september 2014) release for changes?

Possible sources of inspiration

Apple.com (offer consumer computing hardware and software)

• Reliance on pictures, hero image based site
• Utilizes the full width screen
• Feature videos
• Based on the assumption that the user scroll down (beside the main page)

Mozilla.org (maker of Firefox and, internet apps and other projects all free/open source)

• Mission featured
• Projects featured,
• Heavy use of graphics, little text

About Mozilla

• Include Video

Firefox

• Mission featured
• Download button
• Hero images
• Based on the assumption that the user scroll down

FirefoxOS

• Based on interactive animations
• As the user scroll down, the site tells a story that follow the navigation

Mozilla product overview

• Clear grid based product overview, use of different "products" categories

Aribnb (accommodation service)

• Brand mission featured, with link to in deep-info including video
• A Video are played in the background of the main-page (after a few seconds)
• Made a strong point of the redesign/rebranding that attracted substantial media attention

Unlabel Me (Book)

• Crazy good