Hello Tchou, et al,
My first response got returned because it was too big, whoever is in charge of the mail list server can delete it. Here's a better version anyway:
As someone unknown to you, but having recently been through the process of setting up Tails, I would say, and ask a couple of things. Please take them as the rookie I am. They may be completely off base. But I'd like to offer whatever feedback I can:
Who is the target audience (persona)? An non-technical email user? A journalist with motivation? (Maybe this has been defined already, but I'm highly motivated and don't understand some things here).
"Persistence" is a term that seems to be jargon (or perhaps specific to the Unix/Linux world?). It threw me for a loop and I'm a technical person. "Persistence" being an act versus describing an object (it is persistent). It's an encrypted area, or encrypted volume, secure area (or something more common), I'm uncertain thinking about it at this late hour, but another term is in need IMHO. Also, it's something that only exists on a thumb drive or some sort of USB storage, correct? This may affect the name or necessitate additional descriptions of some sort. Perhaps some mouse-over help may be in order? Just a thought.
The phrase "You don't have encrypted persistence, want to configure one?" This would change based upon the above. Perhaps, "Currently, there is no encrypted storage area. Do you want to make one? There are pros and cons." (Pros and cons hyperlinked to info.?)
The icon titled "unlock" should be titled "Unlock". A small UI consistency issue.
"Start" is starting what? Are we really starting something or accepting inputs? (Again, I may be way off base here).
Anyway, please take these for what you deem they're worth. I hope I can be more beneficial as I become more knowledgeable.
Thanks for considering my comments!
Ciao!
Ken
On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:59 AM, "KEN MCCALL" <kemccall@???> wrote:
> Hello Tchou, et al,
>
> As someone unknown to you, but having recently been through the process of setting up Tails, I would say, and ask a couple of things. Please take them as the rookie I am. They may be completely off base. But I'd like to offer whatever feedback I can:
>
> Who is the target audience (persona)? An non-technical email user? A journalist with motivation? (Maybe this has been defined already, but I'm highly motivated and don't understand some things here).
>
> "Persistence" is a term that seems to be jargon. It threw me for a loop and I'm a technical person. It's an encrypted area, or encrypted volume, secure area (or something more common), I'm uncertain thinking about it at this late hour, but another term is in need IMHO. Also, it's something that only exists on a thumb drive or some sort of ERAM, correct? This may affect the name or necessitate additional descriptions of some sort. Perhaps some mouse-over help may be in order? Just a thought.
>
> The phrase "You don't have encrypted persistence, want to configure one?" This would change based upon the above. "configure" one" implies it's already in existence as well as it being a physical thing.
>
> The icon titled "unlock" should be titled "Unlock"
>
> "Start" is starting what? Are we really starting something or accepting inputs? (Again, I may be way of base here).
>
> Anyway, please take these for what you deem they're worth. I hope I can be more beneficial as I become more knowledgeable.
>
> Thanks for considering my comments!
>
> Ciao!
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2015, at 06:53 AM, tchou <tchou@???> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Alan:
>>>> > Hi everybody!
>>>> >
>>>> > Nearly two month passed since last work on our mockups and unless I
>>>> > missed something we failed to make progress on the greeter revamp.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd really like that we could ship something in one the next major
>>>> > version of Tails based on the upcoming Debian Jessie.
>>>> >
>>>> > So I'm tempted to start implementation right now, even tough that's
>>>> > skipping some steps. I'm thus proposing:
>>>> >
>>>> > - if there is people actually having time and energy to collect more
>>>> > feedback, please raise your voice before *january 15th*. If you can't
>>>> > have the feedback by then but can provide a clear deadline when
>>>> > you'll get the feedback, no problem. But I don't want to stay in the
>>>> > vague.
>>> Hey,
>>> We made 2 little workshops with the NUMA people few weeks ago on last
>>> mockups. I will debrief it and send feedbacks and mockups during 5 to 9
>>> of january week.
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Here are some feedbacks and mockups coming after the last workshops we
>> did at NUMA (Thanks again Claudio and Fiodor !).
>> - The first workshop was about testing with paper the current state of
>> the Greeter revamp [1].
>> - The second was about proposing improvements.
>>
>> The mockups I share with you today comes after this, with some extra
>> personnal ideas. The main thing is merge and rephrase the "welcome" and
>> "quick setup" screens. There are some comments on the mockups, maybe
>> there is still missing explanations to understand the proposal.
>>
>> I'll write and send some extra feedbacks on the "Guided configuration"
>> screens later.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tchou
>>
>>
>> [1] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/greeter_revamp_UI/
>>
>>
>>> tchou
>>>> >
>>>> > - if there are UI designers reading this list that want to refine
>>>> > design, awesome! Please raise your voice before *january 15* and
>>>> > propose a process to move forward together.
>>>> >
>>>> > - if nothing happens, I'll start drawing something with Glade and
>>>> > following GNOME 3 human interface guidelines [1] and let you scream en
>>>> > everything that should change.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any comment, criticisms, etc. are more than welcome before *january
>>>> > 15*.
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers
>>>> >
>>>> > [1]: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/
>>>>
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