User:Eben

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Bio

Eben Eliason is a lead UI designer for the OLPC project, and the primary author of the OLPC Human Interface Guidelines.

His (entirely unrelated) website is www.interdimensioinmedia.com

Tasks

Refresh HIG		The Sugar Human Interface Guidelines are a valuable resource for both developers and all interested in learning more about the design and interaction paradigms of the Sugar UI. Unfortunately, it has gone largely untouched since it's authoring over a year ago. I aim to complete a full pass over the HIG, updating images, ideas, and guidelines where appropriate, and noting categories in need of additional work and attempting to enlist individuals to assist in completing them.
Improve "get involved" page		In the rush to push the revised laptop.org website live, we ran out of time to properly flesh out some of its pages. One in particular that's also of particular importance to expanding our community and scaling our efforts is the get involved page, which I've agreed to spend time with to ensure that it provides a friendly and complete point of entry for any and all who wish to become involved with OLPC.
Prepare grassroots assets		Aaron has asked me to research and prepare some assets for a grassroots page of the new website, under the Participate section. This includes information about creating custom screensavers, personalizing email signatures, and printing business cards and other promotional materials.
Overlay chat designs		We've long anticipated that an overlay providing integrated chat facilities into all activities would be a powerful feature. There's even a button on the keyboard for it. Until now, only some first-round sketches have been made, but SugarLabs is pushing forward with this idea in hope of extending the reach of collaborative features in Sugar, and we have a volunteer willing to develop it as long as we find a design. I aim to create both short term and long term visions for this functionality.
Identity security designs		Michael has poked me recently regarding my thoughts on designs for securing identity within the neighborhood view. Specifically, we need a way to indicate people who aren't who they appear to be—both people who appear to be someone we know, but are actually someone else impersonating them, and people we know who have changed their outward identities (colors, etc.).
Security settings module design		We haven't put any real time into a security module for the system settings yet. I have a ticket open for it, though. This should provide, among other things, a place for obtaining developer (I think we have a better name for this now) keys, from start to finish, without needing Browse or copy/paste.
Improve software update design		The software updater is a great thing, but it's young and could use some additional attention. This includes making one-click system updates possible. Perhaps there are ways in which we can integrate the work with the desires of Peru/Uruguay so that a push update model can is also supported.