1. 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.
1.1. 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
- 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?
1.2. 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
- Include Video
- Mission featured
- Download button
- Hero images
- Based on the assumption that the user scroll down
- Based on interactive animations
- As the user scroll down, the site tells a story that follow the navigation
- 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