Brainstorming ideas for the GIMP's next interface
The GIMP image editor is preparing for the start of a new development cycle, and you can have your say in the way the next version looks by submitting a mock-up to the GIMP UI Brainstorm blog. User interface designer Peter Sikking spoke with us about the project and how it fits into the larger work of creating the GIMP's UI.
Sikking heads Man Machine Interface Works in Berlin, where he budgets time for work on open source projects. He leads a small team of interaction designers working on planning and implementing the next iteration of the GIMP's interface. The team formed in 2006, when it joined the GIMP Developer's Conference at the request of the core GIMP developers. There the team helped to identify the app's key usage scenarios, and followed up on each scenario with usability testing in the lab. The results of this work are publicly available on the GIMP GUI wiki, and are interesting reading for anyone who deals with user interaction problems, and particularly those working on graphics applications.
In addition to those tests, the GUI team has taken on specific interface tasks when so charged by the core GIMP developers. For example, it reworked the select and crop tools for GIMP 2.4.
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