MockUp

A MockUp or Wireframe denotes a rudimentary prototype of the user interface of a software to create. MockUps are used especially in early development phases in order to create the demands of the user interface in collaboration with clients and users.

Monday August 24th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze and Alexander Mezin

KDE control module usability using the example of KCM for pointing devices

After reorganizing the system setting structure, the KDE control modules (KCM) should be updated as well. The pointing device KCM should be the proof-of-concept for all design ideas. Your feedback is highly appreciated, especially in respect to the duality of simple vs. advanced.more...

Wednesday May 20th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze

KSysGuard: The Green Paper

This green paper summarizes user comments regarding needs and wishes for a new KSysGuard and presents a couple of mockups to initiate the discussion at the KDE forums.more...

Thursday April 16th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips and Jan Holešovský

Libreoffice Design Session: Inserting a Chart

The Libreoffice UX team presents ideas for an updated workflow to insert charts. We show mockups how the dialog may look like and idea how to tweak your graph to perfection.more...

Thursday April 2nd, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips, Mattias Põldaru and Jan Holešovský

Libreoffice Design Session: Shapes

The Libreoffice UX team presents two proposals on how to access shapes from the sidebar, with the goal to unify the look and feel of Libreoffice tools and to get more space for additional categories of shapes.more...

Thursday March 26th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze and Yousuf Philips

Libreoffice Design Session: Special Character

The Libreoffice UX team presents two proposals for an improved dialog to insert special characters. While the first option was designed with a good balance between effort and benefit in mind, the second solution would be really awesome.more...

Thursday March 19th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips and Jan Holešovský

Libreoffice Design Session: CMIS Improvement

The Libreoffice UX team presents a proposal for an improved integration of content management interoperability services (CMIS). It was the outcome of the second 'design session' that will be conducted regularly.more...

Thursday March 12th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips, Cor Nouws, Mattias Põldaru and Jan Holešovský

Libreoffice Design Session: Entries at Indexes and Tables

The Libreoffice UX team presents a proposal for an improved dialog to tweak the entries of table of contents. It was the outcome of the first 'design session' that will be conducted regularly.more...

Thursday February 19th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze

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.more...

Tuesday February 10th, 2015 by Björn Balazs

Rapid UI development for TrustBridge

TrustBridge is a secure root certificate installer for Windows and Linux. In this article we outline the development of the User Experience.more...

Thursday January 22nd, 2015 by Heiko Tietze

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.more...

Wednesday October 22nd, 2014 by Heiko Tietze

How could KTracks look like?

In a series of articles we illustrate the user centered design process from scratch, based on a still missing application in the KDE world: KTracks, an endurance activity tracker. In this part #3 we present mockups of the application.more...

Tuesday September 23rd, 2014 by Heiko Tietze, Andreas Cord-Landwehr and Björn Balazs

Reprise of Akademy 2014: Artikulate

During Akademy 2014 BoFs we scrutinized some applications usability and visual design. In this article we present the outcome of our work with the KDE pronunciation trainer 'Artikulate'.more...

Tuesday September 16th, 2014 by Heiko Tietze and Jens Reuterberg

Reprise of Akademy 2014: KCM for network manager

Based on a BoF workshop and discussions during the Akademy 2014, we present a proposal for discussion how to integrate the network manager settings into KDE's system setting.more...

Sunday July 13th, 2014 by User Prompt

Active seminar for user-centered development

Modern product development puts the user in the center at an early stage. Our active seminar equips you with the knowledge you need to do so.more...

Thursday June 12th, 2014 by Heiko Tietze and Björn Balazs

KDE System Settings: About the general navigation

KDE system settings are subject of ongoing discussions. In this article we present two alternative interactive prototypes for a possible future of the design. Please vote for the approach you like most.more...

by Heiko Tietze

How to use Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups is an application that allows to arrange pre-built widgets using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor. It is used to create drafts for the discussion of preliminary solutions in the user-centered development. We introduce the tool and give some advices for best practice.more...

Wednesday May 7th, 2014 by Björn Balazs