{"id":4554,"date":"2012-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=060943b80a899e6785dd3ae303619188"},"modified":"2012-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:00:00","slug":"new-usability-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"New Usability\u00a0Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2006 we&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/gui.gimp.org\/index.php\/GIMP_UI_Redesign\">improving<\/a> <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span>&#8217;s user interface with help from Peter Sikking and his team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmiworks.net\/eng\/index.html\">man + machine interface works<\/a>. Some of the best improvements in <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span>&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">UI<\/span> over past several years are the direct result of our&nbsp;collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce that for the next 10 weeks Marinus Schraal is joining Peter Sikking to work on a concept of a new widget set for tools&#8217; options in <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span>. The net outcome will be a functional spec for new <span class=\"caps\">UI<\/span> elements that will be compact and easy to&nbsp;use.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, recently Peter did another <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> related interaction design course at the <span class=\"caps\">FH<\/span> Vorarlberg, Austria. His students <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mmiworks.net\/2012\/05\/teaching-interaction-12.html\">worked<\/a> on possible new user interfaces for <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidrescale.wikidot.com\/\">Liquid Rescale<\/a> plug-in that implements content-aware&nbsp;scaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2006 we&rsquo;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/gui.gimp.org\/index.php\/GIMP_UI_Redesign\">improving<\/a> <span>GIMP<\/span>&rsquo;s user interface with help from Peter Sikking and his team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmiworks.net\/eng\/index.html\">man + machine interface works<\/a>. Some of the best improvements in <span>GIMP<\/span>&rsquo;s <span>UI<\/span> over past several years are the direct result of our&nbsp;collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce that for the next 10 weeks Marinus Schraal is joining Peter Sikking to work on a concept of a new widget set for tools&rsquo; options in <span>GIMP<\/span>. The net outcome will be a functional spec for new <span>UI<\/span> elements that will be compact and easy to&nbsp;use.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, recently Peter did another <span>GIMP<\/span> related interaction design course at the <span>FH<\/span> Vorarlberg, Austria. His students <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mmiworks.net\/2012\/05\/teaching-interaction-12.html\">worked<\/a> on possible new user interfaces for <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidrescale.wikidot.com\/\">Liquid Rescale<\/a> plug-in that implements content-aware&nbsp;scaling.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4554\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1bs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}