This talk covers a series of traditional artistic concepts and explains their usefulness when thinking about the visual composition of GNOME.
What’s involved in GNOME’s visual composition?
Elements: space, colour, shape, size, line, value, texture
Principles: proportion, contrast balance emphasis gradation pattern
A sample of hits and misses in GNOME’s composition for..
- Interaction
- Accessibility
- Beautification
Places to play with the elements and principles of design*
desktop, toolkit, cairo canvass areas etc.
Most importantly, this will be a really fun talk that educates us about how we put all the pieces in GNOME together.
