I am proposing a new icon set for AOO 4.0 that will make them more usable and recognizable to users.
Our focus should be to be the best user experience, anywhere we can make an improvement is important.
To do this, you need to step out of your shoes and think "if I were a user would I care about X in this context?"
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3.4.1 |
4.0 Proposed |
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Shape |
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64px |
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32px |
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16px |
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Legend |
Green - Branding (Twin Gulls) |
Green - Branding (Approx 1/8 icon) |
Tools To Complete Task
GIMP - Free - Can exports icon files with varying sizes. Tutorial on layer sizing and exporting: http://www.gimp-tutorials.net/How-to-make-an-icon-from-a-picture
Description |
Current 3.4.1 |
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Base - .odb Database Document |
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Calc - .ods Spreadsheet |
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Calc - .ots Spreadsheet Template |
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Draw - .odg Drawing |
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Draw - .otg Drawing Template |
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Impress - .odp Presentation |
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Impress - .otp Presentation Template |
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Math - .odf Formula Document |
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Writer - .odm Master Document |
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Writer - .odt Text Document |
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Writer - .ott Text Template |
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Writer - .oth Web Template |
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Existing references and resources for icons:
http://www.openoffice.org/ui/VisualDesign/ODF_icons4print.html
http://www.openoffice.org/ui/VisualDesign/OOo30MimeType4print.html
http://www.openoffice.org/ui/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy_mimetype.html
AOO.next Flat Desktop Icon Exploration
Submitted by Kevin Grignon
Palette is based on AOO blue as key colour.
AOO Desktop Icon Exploration - Samer Mansour
Improvement in icons to emphasize file type (enlarged application icon and colours, decrease in birds and black styling taking up space.)
AOO Desktop Icon Exploration 2 (Round) - Samer Mansour
Rounded to match branding, Went flat, sharper, increased contrast between designator and background icon. Less busy, dropped the gulls.
Changed templates to be dotted, different perspective than we used in the past, left the solid bar at the top so previous 3.x users transition to new icon set.
Then I thought keep the circle theme going (lines don't scale down as nicely in circle version because its smaller to start with):
2 Comments
Kay Schenk
I love them all!
But maybe some explanation is needed – at least for me – on what the various "views" represent.
Kay Schenk
Well...I personally still like the first batch the best – non-circle theme with gulls. Right now, I fell the gulls are really a defining image in our "brand". Without them, the other icons just seem lost to me.