Libreoffice Draw was treated somewhat novercally in last time. But we didn’t forget it and started to pimp its look and feel. This design session was about moving the stencils from the shapes toolbar into the sidebar. And of course not only Libreoffice Draw benefits from this effort. This article
Author: Heiko Tietze
LibreOffice Design Session: Special Character
The Libreoffice UX team discussed possible improvements for the dialog to insert special characters, in particular the feature of recently used items. But today we have more than one solution since the current dialog would still be technology-driven instead of user-centric. This article was posted first on 2015-Mar-26 at user-prompt.com
LibreOffice Design Session: CMIS Improvement
Topic of last week’s Libreoffice design session was the integration of content management interoperability services (CMIS). Here is the outcome of this meeting. This article was posted first on 2015-Mar-19 at user-prompt.com (site closed now) Topic: CMIS Improvement Bug Tickets/Feature Requests: Easy access to online document storage services like Google
LibreOffice Design Session: Entries at Indexes and Tables
The Libreoffice UX team started last week with another type of meeting, the design session. The goal is to discuss one issue in detail along with possible solutions, mostly a mockup. This includes a clear description of the issue, functional and non-functional requirements, as well as constraints for the design.
Tracking changes with LibreOffice
The Libreoffice UX team shows a proposal for the management of change tracking. It intends to have a comprehensive and good-looking overview but with the flexibility to add future enhancements. This article was posted first on 2015-Feb-19 at user-prompt.com (site closed now) Introduction Track changes is an essential feature that
How to make LibreOffice Customization usable
Libreoffice customization is quite powerful in terms of functionality but has some room for improvement regarding usability. This blog post starts the discussion about requirements with the current scope and shows some mockups that might be an improvement to the current design. This article was posted first on 2015-Jan-22 at
How people utilize LibreOffice Impress
In the last couple of weeks, we have run surveys for Writer and Calc in order to gather user feedback on optimizations we were making to the toolbar and applications. So here are the results of our recent survey analysis for Impress. This article was posted first on 2014-Dec-27 at
Results of survey about LibreOffice Calc’s toolbar configuration
Our goal is to unclutter the toolbars from functions that are rarely used and to add those that are more frequently used. In order to verify improvements that we were making to LibreOffice Calc’s we asked users about their needs and preferences toolbars. Here are the results. This article was
How designers think about ‘Save as…’
The metaphor of a floppy for Save is one of the most controversially discussed and challenged icons. There are haters who argue that many younger people never have seen a floppy (except at the Save icons). And there are lovers who favor the clear and unique depiction of the floppy.
Standard toolbar in LibreOffice
Recently we run a short survey about preferences in LibreOffice. In this posting, we present the results and discuss our conclusions. This article was posted first on 2014-Nov-08 at user-prompt.com (site closed now). Introduction Our goal is to update Libreoffice’s default toolbars by removing seldom used icons in order to