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Team
Project Vision
functionality overview
user scenarios
expert evaluation notes
analysis
usability
work in progress
specifications
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design guide
Team
The GIMP project's User Interface is discussed in an open manner through
IRC
and a
dedicated mailing list
, in collaboration with users, developers and designers.
The WIKI will contain the user interaction research results, and specifications coming out of our decisions.
Contact the GIMP developers on IRC (the users "ankh" and "Jehan" are known to have an admin account) to get a login for the wiki.
Everybody is welcome to
discuss features and improvements with us
Note: there used to be
dedicated people
working on the GUI. This is not how we work anymore.
Project Vision
NOTE:
let's review the project vision
Ultimately, every decision taken by our UI team is about realising the product vision. At the LGM 2006, peter sikking held a workshop with the GIMP team, and helped them to formulated their product vision:
GIMP is Free Software;
GIMP is a high-end photo manipulation application and supports creating original art from images;
GIMP is a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements;
GIMP is a platform for programming cutting-edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and artists;
GIMP is user-configurable to automate repetitive tasks;
GIMP is easily user-extendable, by ‘one-click’ installation of plug-ins.
Want to go deeper? Read the
Project vision
functionality overview
To design something, you need to know
everything
it is suppose to do. At the beginning of this project a short, sharp
functionality overview
was made, based on version 2.3.11 (extra kudos to Kamila for all that work).
user scenarios
These
User Scenarios
are used in the GIMP redesign project. They are the result
of workplace observations and a weekend workshop with the GIMP team.
expert evaluation notes
We spent a month and a half evaluating GIMP. Enjoy reading the raw
Expert Evaluation Notes
analysis
Our
analysis
its the result all of our work on GIMP up to now, and shows the way forward for each aspect of GIMP UI, in the form of solution models.
usability
Tobi's work in progress to further improve the
usability
of GIMP.
work in progress
Notes, tables, sketches showing
work in progress
towards detailed specification.
We are working on an
interaction design patch
format.
specifications
Solution models get further developed into UI
specifications
, ready for implementation.
> List of currently running workgroups
design guide
A (growing)
guide
for those who design interaction for GIMP, concentrating on how solutions can be fitted into the overall interaction framework, constraints and how things interconnect.
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