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<font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b><a href="mailto:michael@michaelshiloh.com">michael@michaelshiloh.com</a> on Tue, 2007 Jan 30 at 23:11 -0500 wrote:<br />
</b></font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Awhile back someone joined the list and said that while he wasn't a<br />
programmer, he was a graphic artist and would like to help in some way.</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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I, too, am new to the OpenMoko community. I have only done a little programming in my life and I'm far too out of practice to contribute there. I also won't be able to contribute to the ringtones and images. What I can do, rather decently, is bug test. I participated in ongoing development of a certain server/client package over the course of about eight years.<br />
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Of course, we don't have anything to bug test with yet, so I'll contribute to the idea side and to interface discussions.<br />
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I'd really like to see the interface be as friendly as possible for two sets of people.<br />
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The first set of poeple consists of avanced users who mess arond under the hood but drive an automatic because it's easier in traffic. Even though I'm a rather advanced user, sometimes I just don't want to think about using the interface, I just want it to work. For advanced users, having access to the console and other such utilities will be nice. I never learned how to set the clock on my VCR because the interface wasn't intuitive yet I can do far more in a more complex UI environment. I don't want to have to hunt for menus or functions, I want to find them where I expect them.<br />
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The second group of users are our parents and grandparents. This phone environment has to work for users who don't know the difference between a single-click and a double-click. Those of us on the developing edge tend to accept software that isn't perfectly intuitive, other users will not. For folks like my mother, the interface has to be so intuitive that she will know what a button/icon/etc will do when she taps on it.<br />
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(Everybody else falls somewhere in between those groups.)<br />
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Many of the Linux distros seem to be designed for above average users. Whatever happens with OpenMoko, we have to remember that the design, interface, usage processes, etc must accomodate the lowest common denominator.<br />
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What I would like to see is a place for the interface to be developed and for interface people to interface. (Perhaps within the <a href="http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas" target="_blank">http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Ideas</a> framework).<br />
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Since I can't contribute in programmatical or artistic ways, I offer to assist in making the experience as smooth as possible.<br />
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dygituljunky<br />
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