Infrastructure Design - Look & Feel

[Mike McGrath]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> For anyone here who doesn't know me, I'm Máirín Duffy and I'm an 
> interaction designer with Red Hat (I work on Red Hat Network - 
> rhn.redhat.com).
>
> I heard that you folks are building a bunch of infrastructure 
> applications and would like them to have a consistent look and feel, 
> and I would be very interested in helping out in this effort. I have a 
> couple of questions about the project:
>
> - How many applications are involved, and what's involved? Is there an 
> exhaustive list somewhere with kind of a basic description of what 
> each does?
>
> - Which applications are highest priority to receive design/skinning 
> work?
>
> Based off of these I think the next steps would be for me and maybe 
> some other designers (I will try to recruit some :) ) to look over the 
> applications in question, considering their priority, and start 
> putting together some mockups for their look and feel. Then we can 
> share the mockups and start discussing their implementation here, and 
> tweak them where there are implementation concerns, and then finally 
> figure out or start implementing them (once there's an initial set of 
> mockups the design/implementation processes can kind of happen in 
> parallel, as implementation issues crop up we can go back to the 
> designs and tweak as needed, so on and so forth.)
>
> Does this sound like a good plan?

Sounds great.  So one thing thats nice is a lot of our apps coming up 
use TurboGears which abstracts the UI from the code using kid 
templates.  It would be very nice to get some default kid templates 
together for us to pick through and get some style sheets for us to pick 
through.  Actual flow through the applications is going to be more 
complicated though.  So, for example:

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats/ *  (TG)
https://publictest7.fedora.redhat.com/ *  (TG)
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/ *
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ *
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/nagios/
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ * (TG)


The *'s are things we build or maintain, the others are 3rd party and 
may only be able to change templates and css.  TG boxes are turbogears apps.


    -Mike