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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Improving the first contact with Ada
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:35:31 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> 3) AdaIC has a graphical identity, if it change it, pretty sure many body  
> gonna ask themselves what happened (“is it still the same AdaIC ?”)
> 4) AdaIC design is not so bad, it is even good (well balanced and  
> constant). Old fashioned ? What was nice 15 years ago is ugly now ? So  
> people 15 years ago all had bad taste ?

It is not a question of taste or fashion. There are some objective
ergonomic rules, when violated make most people consider the page odd.
Three examples from AdaIC. it has two bars one vertical, one horizontal
with overlapping between, where is what? The colors: never use more than
one pure color, even if you wanted a shrilling visual effect (which AdaIC
did not). Never mix pictogram and text labels.

> 5) If you want to differentiate from others, don't copy everyones else  
> graphical identity, get yours.

... choose your identity wisely.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de