Bugzilla:Pretty
Make Bugzilla Pretty
As of Bugzilla 4.0, most of Bugzilla's major usability problems will have been addressed. There are still some rough edges, but for the most part, we've improved usability to the point where it's much less of a problem than it used to be, and we don't have to worry about it as much.
Now it's time to make Bugzilla look nice. However, we are not experts in this area. So, we are turning to you.
This is the "Make Bugzilla Pretty Contest". We are looking for designers to submit images of redesigned Bugzilla pages. If we choose your design, you will get:
- Prominent credits in the Bugzilla Release Notes, with a link to your web page.
- A link in the Bugzilla 5.0 release announcement on the bugzilla.org website.
- A case study for your web site that we can work with you to help create.
Most importantly, you will be able to say that you were the person or company that made Bugzilla pretty--a career-changing (and very marketable) accomplishment, at the least.
How To Enter
To enter, all you have to do is submit an image that is a redesign of this exact bug view page:
There is also an annotated version of the image that shows which pieces are optional or not shown to all users.
You don't need to submit a working HTML page, and in fact we don't want one--we just want an image.
To make your submission, just create a new sub-section of the "Entries" section below. You can see a sample entry there. If you have any trouble, you can also just email your submission to mkanat@bugzilla.org.
The deadline for submission is February 1, 2011.
You may want to start with something simpler than the bug view page, so you can first submit a redesign of the front page, if you want. The front page looks like:
The Rules
- You must preserve all of the functionality of the current bug view page. Mostly, this means that you can't remove any field or link from the current image above.
- You may move anything on the page around to anywhere.
- This is not a usability contest, only a contest for how nice the resulting user interface looks. We have already done heavy usability work on Bugzilla--you are certainly welcome to improve visual usability aspects, but remember that other significant usability changes should happen as part of a separate project, not here.
- The winner's design will become the official design of Bugzilla 5.0, although we may make modifications to it as we implement it. We may choose to only use part of the winning design, and we may choose to combine multiple designs (in which case all designs used will be considered to have "won").
- The judges are the Bugzilla Reviewers, with the Bugzilla UI Lead (Guy Pyrzak) having veto power and two votes.
- We do not have to pick any of the entries. If we don't like any of the entries enough to make them our official design, then we simply won't choose any of them.
Entries
Sample Entry
Here's a little description of what I did, some of my thoughts about this design, and who I am.
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