[udig-devel] uDig Design

[Jody Garnett]

Adrian our original design and architecture documents are available for 
download if that would be any help. I have downloaded your document for 
later review.

Cheers,
Jody
> Hey all,
>
> I've started thinking about writing up a formal design document and as
> part of that I attempted a start. The document is attached as a PDF.
>
> Would this kind of a document be useful to the project? Would it give us
> a long term goal against which to work? Would an openoffice.org doc be
> usable for us and could we we hash out the different pieces by
> editing/discussing such a document? 
>
> It's a slow, hard process to write this up; it also feels like so much
> hand waving so I'm not terribly interested in doing this if it's not
> going to be of general use. Please let me know what you think.
>
> --adrian
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:23 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>   
>> And by "design" I do not mean software design, I mean user interface  
>> and human/computer interaction design.
>>
>> Talking with Adrian at FOSS4G and with Carl Anderson at URISA, both  
>> had some high level guidance to give on how our user interaction  
>> could be better.  We have been pretty ad hoc on this stuff, mostly  
>> because the only person in the shop with enough industry experience  
>> to have an opinion was also too busy to ever write something  
>> comprehensive down.
>>
>> I would like to invite Adrian and Carl and Vitaly and anyone else  
>> with a big picture view of how things should look/be organized/work  
>> at a UI level to participate fully and (preferably) stake out some  
>> areas where they will be the Gods of Design that others can follow.
>>
>> In particular, there are a some areas that are either due for  
>> revamping or expanding that need some design guidance:
>>
>> - Printing (and a possible printing perspective)
>> - Catalog (and a possible catalogue perspective)
>> - Analysis (and a possible analysis perspective)
>>
>> Absent some kind of plan this stuff will continue to be addressed  
>> piecemeal, so having some design guidance (there are the views the  
>> perspective should have, this is what they do, how they interact)  
>> would be immensely useful.
>>
>> Paul
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