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If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ? Of course something does requires my attention. There is content, and content has

by bsaul 8y ago

If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ? Of course something does requires my attention. There is content, and content has structure and different levels of importance. A screen in an installer is a step. A step has title, a domain, which probably would be nice to write somewhere. Then there probably are other steps i’ve performed, and other steps to come. Visual queues showing where i am in the navigation would be welcome. If the background is the thing taking up the most space, then it means the screen either has no reason to be fullscreen, or that the input doesn’t justify taking a whole step, ... etc Those are the kinds of questions that you should ask yourself when you see a screen like that. Just based on visual layout and style.

anoncake 8y ago
> If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ? Of course something requires your attention, the content of the screen. But if you highlight everything, you highlight nothing. > A step has title, a domain, which probably would be nice to write somewhere. It is. > Then there probably are other steps i’ve performed, and other steps to come. Visual queues showing where i am in the navigation would be welcome. They're on the left. I'm seriously wondering whether you even looked at the screenshots. > If the background is the thing taking up the most space, then it means the screen either has no reason to be fullscreen, or that the input doesn’t justify taking a whole step, ... etc If the background is the thing taking up the most space, it means that your screen is unnecessarily large for the task. That's unavoidable and not a problem to begin with. You can't just put multiple inputs in one "step", else you'd have a step with no coherent topic like Installation type+timezone.
- bsaul 8y ago
  I think you should have a look at some mac os installation wizard to understand what i mean. In case someone reading this happen to be involved with the design of kde screens, i would suggest reading this kind of design 101 articles : https://www.canva.com/learn/visual-hierarchy/ https://www.canva.com/learn/visual-hierarchy/

by bsaul 8y ago

anoncake 8y ago

> If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ? Of course something requires your attention, the content of the screen. But if you highlight everything, you highlight nothing. > A step has title, a domain, which probably would be nice to write somewhere. It is. > Then there probably are other steps i’ve performed, and other steps to come. Visual queues showing where i am in the navigation would be welcome. They're on the left. I'm seriously wondering whether you even looked at the screenshots. > If the background is the thing taking up the most space, then it means the screen either has no reason to be fullscreen, or that the input doesn’t justify taking a whole step, ... etc If the background is the thing taking up the most space, it means that your screen is unnecessarily large for the task. That's unavoidable and not a problem to begin with. You can't just put multiple inputs in one "step", else you'd have a step with no coherent topic like Installation type+timezone.

bsaul 8y ago
I think you should have a look at some mac os installation wizard to understand what i mean. In case someone reading this happen to be involved with the design of kde screens, i would suggest reading this kind of design 101 articles : https://www.canva.com/learn/visual-hierarchy/ https://www.canva.com/learn/visual-hierarchy/