Third Look&Feel Proposal For Boot And GDM Theme

As a followup on my post Proposed look-and-feel for boot and gdm theme, I just wanted to let you know that a third proposal has been uploaded. At a first glance it looks like only the color was changed. When you look closely you'll see the small enhancements like glow, borders, etc. the Canonical artteam has changed since the first demo.

Besides the small changes in the details, I think Canonical will stick with this design without any radically changes. I've really got nothing against brown, but this third demo is really brown, but honestly I was hoping for some more colorful proposal. I even submitted a few mockups to the Karmic Boot Experience wiki. So, I guess the best way to express my assessment can be summed up with one sentence: "close but no cigar".

View all the Canonical's mockups for this third demo here:
Ubuntu Karmic boot demo and proposed GDM theme – Iteration 3

GnomeShell and Complex Design Ideas

You've probably already heard about GnomeShell, which redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. The project is still in early stages of development. The plan is to have it be an optional feature in GNOME 2.28, and to replace the existing components for GNOME 3.0.

On the designer playground site you can find a list of descriptions of design ideas with links to the mockups or write-ups. If you're into usability, GUI design or just curious, surf by the http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground

On the site you'll find images, write-ups, videos and even an interactive mockup.

The image below is a mockup made by Máirín Duffy for the Navigating Applications Menu

...getubuntu/download

Matthew Nuzum from Canonical posted this message titled "If you could change the download tabs..." on the Ubuntu-website mailinglist.

So, I did some thinking and created a mockup of the download site. I really think the current site is very messy, so I made some changes to make it look more inviting (Like making the mirror selection automatic).

The current site looks like this:
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Here's my version:
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Follow the discussion on: lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2009-April/date.html