designing moblin for netbooks

Designing Moblin for Netbooks Nick Richards - 8th July 2009



The story so far


O HAIi’m nick richards


The mission


This is my cat


Are you a designer?


Do you know what Moblin is?

This is Moblin



Now, how did we get there?

Make something better than these

© Copyright 2009 Intel. Moblin

Everybody deserves good design


Small (but big) screens


Keyboard and bad trackpad


Must work in a shop

Thus


This is not our target audience

Moblin

Thus


This is our target audience

Moblin


It’s not for you

Thus


Expected context of use

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Simple and easy


Suppressed power


Gets better the more you use it


Building

Moblin

It starts with a sketch


ThusWell, a couple of sketches


Then you go to a wireframe


ThusOr two


ThusAdd some snazzy visual design


Then iterate the ‘info-motion’


FOR CORE DEVELOPMENT USE ONLY. DRAFT UI CONCEPTS, THIS IS NOT THE FINAL SOLUTION.

It works a bit like this



The toolbar


Zones


Apps and panels


myzone


Toolbar, sidebar, content pane


Toolbar


Sidebar


Content pane


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