Please ignore that observation. After the topic was deleted by Discourse Meta, I realised that one of the two messages (neither was opened by me) was genuinely a personalised Welcome! from me.
Outstanding
From last week’s collection, the more significant impressions were these:
Categorisation
Cross reference yesterday’s post 29 under Categorisation, tagging, default appearance:
– someone who is neither a designer nor a developer might turn away.
ASAP please: can you reduce that text? Be ruthless. Skip the word ‘community’ (that’s implicit), and so on. Maybe change it from:
We are a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software.
– to something like:
promoting more open design processes • improving the user experience and interface design of open source software
– Unicode U+2022 for the bullet.
I’d like to tell how it will appear in future tweets.
If you need help finding it, for edition: it’s the text that appears at /about and (yes) you might cringe at the drop from uppercase to lower for the p in promoting, but I suspect that people will more often see the text in the context of e.g. tweets.
grahamperrin: I see your point – to design truly effective software for end users, any community needs users/testers/support folks as much as designers and developers. … here are my suggestions:
We are a community promoting more open design processes. • We are dedicated to improving the user experience and interaction design of open source software.
<Changes in bold> “Interface design” is a somewhat dated term. Alan Cooper pioneered “interaction design” in the late 90s, and over time it’s become the standard. I do think it’s important emphasize the community part!!!
