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>"Hey, I have a great idea for an app/website/..." It's not just an idea. It's a considered UI for the community to critique and possibly implement. An open so
by bluthru 14y ago
>"Hey, I have a great idea for an app/website/..."
It's not just an idea. It's a considered UI for the community to critique and possibly implement. An open source project thrives on multiple people to help out. If this mockup was so simple and obvious, it would have existed already.
- ChikkaChiChi 14y agoUnless I can print this out and rub it on my screen to create the code and associated elements needed to make this work, I don't see how this is anything other than a mockup...which is an idea.
- bluthru 14y agoThat's like saying floor plans or a logo is just an idea.
- ChikkaChiChi 14y agoIf I draw up a floor plan for Cowboy Stadium and post it on the Internet that I think this is how the new Vikings Stadium should look, I believe that would be called an idea.
- acous 14y agoBut if you have the contract for designing a new stadium, then it's actual work?
- bluthru 14y agoThe posted concept isn't just a copy--there have been decisions made based upon functionality. To follow the analogy, one could use the Cowboys stadium as a precedent and then adapt it to the climate of Minneapolis. This isn't a discussion about the codebase because the code can't solve the questions being discussed. There isn't anything in the concept that is out of the realm of feasibility. Critiques happen at all phase of design and development, and you seem like someone who's uncomfortable with ideas that aren't finalized.
- jlarocco 14y agoNo, if I can't run it on my machine then it's just an idea. I didn't say it was a simple or obvious idea - I said it's just an idea. Anybody can make something pretty in Photoshop. If he was serious about getting people to implement his mockup he should have spent a few days writing a quick and dirty implementation, with real code that could be improved upon later.
- bluthru 14y agoIt's just a chat app. We all know that programming it is feasible because it has been done hundreds of times before. That part isn't interesting. What's interesting is the interface, which is why we're discussing it. The fact that you can't run an application doesn't make the concept any more or less interesting to discuss and critique. The issues being discussed aren't solved with code.
- gverri 14y agoLol? Anybody can make something pretty in Photoshop? I dare you to try and make something similar. You know that there's a profession called UI Designer?
- da_n 14y agoThis sums up why most open source GUI's look like a widget library vomited on the screen, don't try getting involved unless you know how to code.