openSUSE Artwork, Branding, UI and UX

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1. Artwork, Branding, UI&UX Why UI? I mean, Stasiek Michalski hellcp@opensuse.org lcp on Freenode.net @ohellcp @hellcp@mastodon.social @hellcp:matrix.org
2. Join the “team” We hang out on Discord, Matrix and IRC, just come say hi and ask what to do, we will find you a task discord.gg/opensuse matrix.to/#/#opensuse-artwork:matrix.org #opensuse-artwork @ freenode.net
5. Achievements • YaST Icons (me and Noah Davis) • Branding for the distro (with a lot of community help) • Everything else
6. Logo • Sharing logo with SUSE is not a great way for openSUSE to stand out (let’s ignore the name topic for now) • I can’t modify the logo on Wikipedia page, which has white background in the eye, so let’s change the entire logo for this reason
7. Distribution logos • Don’t fit too well next to each other, look at main site and software-o-o • Are in wildly different visual styles • Tumbleweed in particular doesn’t fit basic shapes (like circle and square) without being too small
8. Colours • openSUSE Green and Cyan are not great background colours for white text (2.39 and 2.41 contrast ratios respectively) • Distribution logos shouldn’t have the same colour as the main logo, it would indicate default (looking at you Leap) • Very limited palette
9. Ideas this far
10. And how they progressed
11. Playing with variants
12. Feedback Feedback and suggestions wanted in branding repo issue #93
13. Branding too modern • openSUSE branding that was universally liked was focused around nature • Recent branding started including architecture and human made objects like lightbulbs
14. Merchandise • Current designs focus mainly around the logo • Nothing particularly stylish, that could be a daily wear outside of being an ad
15. Software usability discussions • YaST needs some serious help • Installation is not that clear • Partitioner is in a sorrow state
16. This starts off tough
17. So let’s not start here Community consists of people that know what they want, let’s mock everything up, decide what widgets we need and then start implementing stuff properly when we know what and where we need stuff exactly
18. Landing page discussions Let’s look at the current page first
21. Issues with the first view • Duplication of and differences in information between main page, software-o-o and wikis • Different navigation structure than other sites
24. Issues with the second view • Duplication of and differences in information between main page and wikis • Very limited subset of projects openSUSE actively maintains
25. Let’s do news It’s a good addition to the site, makes it way more informative about current state of the openSUSE Project
26. Expanding the ideas • More focus on the community • More focus on ways to contribute • More focus on developed projects • More mores
27. And then software-o-o • Distribution aren’t really that well explained, there are no screenshots, no descriptions, nothing