Paulo José - Brainstorm

Yesterday I read an article on OMG Ubuntu about some new features being developed for Nautilus and one of them just caught my attention: Tags! I've being waiting for this for so long and now Gnome developer Alexandru Pandelea is doing a great work on making it possible. Amazing! So much I like his work, my designer spirit started to take place, bringing some ideas of how it could be improved to look a little more consistent with modern Gnome and Nautilus itself. I took two main references that I consider relevant for Tags. One of them is Nautilus "New Folder" dialogue. Since most users are familiarized to it, using the same approach for this new feature can help in its adoption. Another reference is Gnome Map location search, since it presents a meaningful list of results in a cleaver and modern way. After some iteration, here I present my first UI mockup for Tags in Nautilus.   Disclaimer: Everything below are just images made in Inkscape (mockups)....

Hi everybody, Currently I'm working on some few issues concerning icons. Proposal for "Saving Information" icons in Statusbar My fisrt email about this issue is last February dated. But recently I received some most special feedback, then I resume this issue. First iteration: Feedback: Style 1 with 3th symbol (upper right) is the best option. [1] [2] Orange is a good choice for indicating "new", since yellow would be hard to eyes. [1] [2] Smaller size (14x11px) fits better to the statusbar's size. [1] [2]   A new version is proposed to match the page's zoom icons style in statusbar. [2] Second iteration: Here I'm keeping just the previous Style 1, with 2th and 3th symbols and a different outline. A document symbol's version with gradients is included. The Styles 1 and 2 are 9px large (matching the page's zoom icon), otherwise the 3 and 4, 10px large. Feedback: 10px large seems better. [1] It should keep the differences...

Oops, I did it again! I mean, I did one banner more to The Challenge (now it's appear in my blog's sidebar too). (Click to see it bigger) SVG Source file: LibreOffice-The-Challenge-Banner-Paulo-v2-dark It uses the really great Nik's cartoons. Thank you Nik!  Actually I did it yesterday. I should do the light version today, but my classes just started and I had no time anymore... Now my clock marks 1:44 AM and I'll need wake up ~7:00 AM. Long seep to you. :P

Well, the last week was really a full-time working time to me, most because my university research came back to the road. So here is an insight of what I'm doing. LibreOffice wallpapers Thanks to feedback by the LibreOffice's Marketing Team, I improved my first wallpapers with the LibreOffice's Initial Mimetype Icons, normalizing the logo and increasing their size. Many thanks to they! Finally, I skipped from GIMP's post-production and re-edited everything in Blender's Node Compositor. Wallpapers 1: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10): Wallpapers 1: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3): Wallpapers 2: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10): Wallpapers 2: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3): The Challenge's Banners The LibreOffice Challenge : EUR 50 000 for the Foundation. Donate now for an effective, efficient, transparent, and inclusive community! This a actual challenge and I'm sure it's achieve success! :) But the Website Mail Listing guys are needing some ...

Hi guys, here we go with more 3D stuff: Update (16 feb 2011): The second wallpaper was updated to correct some incorrect vertexes on 3D meshes. The most perceptive error was in the triangle on top right corner of the Base icon. Now they all look fine. :D [Blender + Gimp] - The PNG files are huge (almost 1MB each one), so here you find JPG versions : Wallpaper 1 - Wallpaper 2 These are my first wallpapers since I started to play with 3D models of LibreOffice new icon set . The first one have no much perspective and the light source come from the backside. It's the because icons have less saturated color. The second still have the back light source, but this arrangement and camera perspective make the scene darker. Please, make your choice. :P Design team, sorry for change the color of the symbol and the "Document Foundation" text.  It was done to make them seem more native in  this "light style", and in mean time empathize the Libre Office name too ....

There are some years that I work with Blender, an open source 3D program. I love to play with 3D, making an simple idea become true. Although, my first try to mix Blender and LibreOffice was put a bit of the Blender's User Interface in the LibreOffice's User Interface. So today I thought "Why not put a few of LibreOffice in Blender too?" Yeah! Here is a try: It's just a 3D model of the Writer document icon from LibreOffice's new branding. For now I made it for fun, but maybe it can be useful to marketing stuff or something else, I don't know. :)