[Design] [Cosmo] Magic URL visual design review

[Ted Leung]

The only comment that I would make here is that we should be smart  
about how much internationalization/localization we do ourselves and  
how much we leave for other people.   Remember that Cosmo is behind  
Chandler in terms of overall feature set, and internationalizability  
is likely to be one are where we are behind until sometime after  
preview.   If, for example, it comes down to trading dashboard  
features for internationalization, I'd prefer to have dashboard  
features.

Ted

On Nov 22, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> See in-line...
>
> On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:
>
>> If we want to say that localizing Cosmo for a specific language  
>> also requires special graphics tools like Photoshop/GIMP, that's a  
>> significant departure from the approach we've taken so far. I'm  
>> not saying it's the wrong approach, but it does raise the bar for  
>> participation, and as an open-source project, it something we  
>> should consider carefully I think.
>
> The truth is with content like this, whoever does the translation  
> is going to have to have design skills, or work with someone who  
> does. Even the simplified version I mocked up will fail when it  
> gets translated into Finnish and most UIs don't look so hot when  
> they get localized into ideographic languages like Chinese. I don't  
> think we'll ever get to 100% with localization issues.
>
>>> Mimi, Stick with you guns and go with the most visually appealing  
>>> proposal. At least that's my vote (if I may even do so)
>
> Thanks Jeremy. At this point, I'm not particularly attached to  
> either design. we should pick whichever one gets us to Preview  
> first :) All things being equal, I would pick the 2nd one because  
> it allows us to have the collection name in the 'Add xxx to your  
> account' text.
>
> Mimi
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