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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

Good points, Johns.

And my comment about needing a UI designer was not *whatsoever* implying 
that Chad's UI design skills thus far havn't been impressive!  I do Love 
the clean look of the permaculture.info site, although I still want to 
tweak that logo...

Johns - can you please clarify the terms UI and frontend for us (me)?

I'll be a critic with you.

peace
*Stephanie

------ Original Message ------
Received: 07:08 PM PDT, 10/03/2004
From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
To: "PCPLANTDB" <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[23][10.3.04]

Aloha,

> â?¡ WEBSITE â??
> -Iâ??m getting a little worried about the UI design of hg, which will 
be *
> critical* if we want the medium to match the message.  It seems like 
the
> techie folks have experience with backend, but not so much with 
frontend
> (please correct me if Iâ??m wrong).

I will mercilessly criticize, test and break any and all front ends... ;-
)

Remember that we are planning to make it possible for diverse folks to
(eventually) design diverse front ends for the DB.

Initially I think we had been talking about a single, simple,
browser-independent front end/UI that would let us use and test the back
end as it is developed.  Simple search form, advanced search form if
appropriate/desired, and simple listing(s) of data returned.
That is my preference at this point, anyhow.
Once there is more back end and at least part of an API to work with, 
some
of the front ends can start to get more sophisticated.

> I have a bit of experience with
> Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and have designed websites (erâ?|one 
website),
> and I could definitely take UI design on as part of my role.  Or, and
> this might serve us well, would we want to recruit someone to be in
> charge of UI design?

"User Interface" is a pretty broad term.  It is also not (necessarily)
synonymous with "front end."
I think it would be good to re-clarify these areas of the project at this
point and then go from there...



John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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- Eco-Living -
Whole Systems Design Services
People - Place - Learning - Integration
john@eco-living.net
http://eco-living.net


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