Hi, In case you don't know me, my name is MÃirÃn Duffy (mizmo in IRC) and I'm the Fedora design team lead & an interaction designer with Red Hat. I worked a bit with Chris and Peter before Fedora 12 came out to try to improve Anaconda's UI for more specialized storage devices. I'm very interested in improving Anaconda's user interface, and in general Fedora's installation experience from beginning to end. One thing we've worked on for the past two releases of Fedora is an improved experience for downloading Fedora from the website. You may have noticed the redesigned 'Get Fedora' pages with Fedora 13's launch, and the redesigned Fedora main website released with Fedora 14's launch a couple of weeks ago. I think the next logical step is to examine the current state of our installation process, identifying the issues we see today, and brainstorming ways to improve the experience of installing Fedora. Here's what we have so far towards this end: - A wiki page to store links to discussions, record decisions, store mockups, and any other data needed: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign - There was a long thread on Fedora's devel list about improving the installer experience. (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-October/144105.html ) There are some notes distilled from that thread on the UX_Redesign wiki page right now (although they'll probably need some more cleanup to be useful.) - David put together some notes on the install experience for other distributions: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/installer-evals/ - James documented the supported installation methods tested in Anaconda: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2010-May/msg00305.html - This week I created screen-by-screen walkthroughs of the Live Media install process in F14 (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/F14_Live_Media_Install ) and the DVD install process as well (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/F14_DVD_Install ). I also put together a comparison chart of the two methods - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign/Current_Install_Process_Analysis - Today we had some conversation in #anaconda and I wrote that up as well on that last wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign/Current_Install_Process_Analysis I really want to help make our installation process an easy and pleasant experience - so if you have any feedback on the above or ideas on how to get there, let's talk about it. I think even bad or crazy ideas are good brain food, and can lead to awesome innovation. I'm definitely planning to put together some pretty crazy mockups to feed our brains so be on the lookout for those. :) Thanks, ~m _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
