I agree; it would be beneficial for our SoC students to work with an experienced UI designer. I'm not involved in the SoC myself, but if an interaction designer were to offer their time to help out, I'm fairly certain it would be welcome. In particular, some people on irc have raised concerns about how well the combined selection tool will turn out if only programmers guide the student. Of course, I cannot volunteer anyone else's time for them. -- drawoc On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:57 AM, peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tobias Jakobs asked me in a comment on the blogpost > > <http://blog.mmiworks.net/2012/05/teaching-interaction-12.html> > > ‘What does this mean for the Gimp team? Is it a good idea to use one ob this to redesign the tool or does it need more work?’ > > I answered: > > ‘Good question. One has to value this work for what it is, student work from a class that ran one week. > > ‘One the one hand a certain part of GIMP—in 2012 seam carving—that has never received any interaction design thought, gets methodically worked on by 3 or 4 teams of talented designers. The results are a shot in the arm for GIMP. > > ‘On the other hand a week is very short and for the students it is their first introduction to interaction design. Thus the presented results are alway an _inspired_start_ but not complete and deep enough for implementation. > > ‘To do the methodical student work justice, the logical next step is that experienced interaction designers take the work forward and create a for-production design.’ > > This is of course relevant to the SoC. > > ps: I am blogging the results of 2013 right now. > > --ps > > founder + principal interaction architect > man + machine interface works > > http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture > > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
