[wp-ui] wp-ui Digest, Vol 1, Issue 10

Wed Jan 20 15:15:47 UTC 2010

Hi everyone,

My name is Nico, and unlike most people contributing so far, I don't have a
long illustrious career in development or coding. I'm a college student in
the north of Holland, and my skill set is basically limited to design and
SEO. I mostly do consultancy around school. I love wordpress and I set up
every client with it because it works so well every time.

I just figured I could add a bit in the design area of the UI of wordpress.

Anyways, my incomplete portfolio is here: www.nicolicious.com. Recent work
isn't included sadly, because I have some projects under development.

But, nice to see everyone, hope I can help somehow along the way.

All the best,
Nico

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> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:26:26 +0100
> From: Du?an Kosour <uns at centrum.cz>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
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> Hello everybody,
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> my name is Dusan Kosour and I'm from the Czech republic in Europe.
> I?m not a designer nor developer, my skills are in SVG graphics, logos,
> typography, bitmap to vector tracing, stock photography, product
> photography, HDR photography.
> Of course, I can also work as a user tester :o)
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> Best regards, Dusan.
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> http://galerie.zasklem.cz/grafika/
> http://zbozi.zasklem.cz
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:52:57 +0200
> From: Ronen Hirsch <remote at iamronen.com>
> Subject: [wp-ui]  Intros
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> Dear Friends,
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> My name is Ronen (http://www.iamronen.com) and I live in the north of
> Israel in a small village called Elkosh
> http://www.iamronen.com/2009/03/elkosh/.
>
>
> 3+ years ago I left behind a 15 year information technology career in
> which I specialized in systems analysis, management and the last two
> years were dedicated to digital product design. I am a Yoga practitioner
> and teacher and I play Shakuhachi
> http://www.iamronen.com/2009/04/sounds-of-shakuhachi/. Since my break
> from the business of technology I have immersed myself as a photographer
> in an artistic exploration with improvisation performance artists
> (http://www.stillcreation.com). I am currently involved in numerous
> self-initiated projects and rarely work commercially.
>
>
> I encountered WordPress ~3 years ago and have enjoyed it greatly both
> for expressing myself and for enabling others to communicate with the
> world. I have since moved to using mostly open-source solutions and have
> great respect for the people leading in this direction. I have been
> looking for a way to give back to open-source by contributing my product
> design skills. I have recently begun interacting with the Mozilla
> Raindrop team and am now looking forward to partaking in this new
> WordPress process.
>
>
> For me product design is a process of choosing and pursuing a purpose
> (for a product) with care. Though I can contribute on the UI/UX level my
> patience for these details is limited - I believe that too much noodling
> around with these details can be a sign of lack of direction and is
> often done at the expense of actions that have a higher leverage and
> more impact on the product. I feel that **as an end-user product**
> WordPress has been making little and insignificant progress since 2.7.
>
>
> I have two distinct purposes in mind for WordPress. One is a REALLY
> simple blogging platform (in the direction Tumblr is heading) that
> anyone can use. The other is an open-source substitute for Facebook - an
> application that every-day-non-blogger people can use to store,
> communicate and socialize with other people online. I would love for
> WordPress to reach many more people then it currently does. I believe
> that inevitably most people will have (many already do) an online
> presence - I prefer that that presence be established on open-source
> software and self-owned solutions (I collect my thoughts and resources
> on this issue at: http://www.iamronen.com/ontekusuto/).
>
>
> I feel that WordPress is still waaaay too technical and addresses mostly
> needs of technically-minded people. I believe one of the core reasons
> for this is that, like all the other open-source projects I have
> encountered, it is dominated and led by developers.Therefore, I believe
> this effort to bring designers into the process is a wonderful
> undertaking and has the potential to break new grounds for open-source
> software (which generally suffers from poor product design). I am not
> pleased to find that it will be limited to narrow UI perspective - but
> maybe that is an inevitable starting point - time will tell! I believe
> WordPress deserves not only better GUI/UI but also an open high-level
> discussion of where it is headed - a discussion about purpose.
>
>
> Thank you Jane & Automattic for initiating this process.
> All Things Good
>
> Ronen
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:39:10 -0800
> From: tom shue <tomshue at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [wp-ui] first steps
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> Hello, My name is Tom Shue. I live in Las Vegas. I am new to word press and
> really like what I have seen. First off I am a freelance graphic artist that
> specializes in 3d motion graphics. I have been designing web projects for
> over 10 years. I use html, css, php,msql, javascript, what ever it takes to
> archive an end result. I am one that who sees from an artistic eye first and
> coding isnt my first love, but I can hold my own.
> I mainly use C4D, After Effects and Photoshop for artistic expression. I
> also use MODO, MAYA, Houdini, Realflow, and syntheyes for match moving. I
> have also dabbled in plugin development using c++ This is mainly because the
> C4D sdk is best utilized in visual studio instead of python ( the script
> language doe most of the 3d world) and I didnt take the time to learn
> c.o.f.f.e.e (c4d script language).
>  I have recently become a photography blogger and plan to lurk here.
> However if I can be of any help in an artistic level. I would be happy to
> volunteer my services. I see with over 300 people responding, there is
> plenty of coders better suited than I. I will follow along and hope I can
> find a way to contribute. Thanks for allowing me to be apart of this great
> community. I look forward to great things. Sincerely, Thomas Shue
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