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How do you like the recent improvements to the Tabbed UI?
Coming with version 26.8, and available now in the nightly build at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/.
The making-of for SINGULARITY is out! Watch a final walkthrough of the production with Blender Studio team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKZw8oPoiE
Resources has been accepted into Incubator! Thanks Nokyan for developing such excellent app 🩷
But we also need your help! We need people to test Nightly builds to ensure the app can be accepted into Core.
You can learn how to do it here: https://welcome.gnome.org/app/Resources/#installing-a-nightly-build
Tips I give when helping teams with #UX:
This article is based on a talk about tips that I frequently give when coaching small open source teams on user experience design. So, this is: Hands-on (So this is not from coachings where I would help teams to find out what they actually want to do) Ways of work …
SINGULARITY update: Blender Studio's new open movie is now available on Blender Video!
If you work as a designer in an open source project: Does the project recommend any particular reading or guidelines for design contributors? ("Ten Heuristics", OS guidelines, list of principes,...)
And if yes, how is the material recommended and how is it referred to in the work your community does?
Math in design tokens? Yes and it’s more practical than you think.
Learn how to use calculations and functions like round(), ceil(), pow() and more to build smarter, scalable design systems in Penpot. ✨
New blog post by @laura 👇
https://penpot.app/blog/practical-uses-for-math-functions-in-design-tokens/
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2026. Aya Jamal – OpenType MATH: this project aims to add support for OpenType fonts that contain a MATH table. Data from the MATH table will be used to layout math formulas. Manish Bera – Improve word processor test coverage: Writer is the most complex application in LibreOffice. The tests written in the scope of this project will make for a better developer experience. One aim is to restart the automated generation of LCOV test coverage reports. Jesus Solis – JPEG XL import support: while JPEG XL has only recently started to be adopted by web browsers, it is already used in fields such as medical imaging, professional photography, PDF & EPUB authoring and handling geospatial and archival data. Having support for it in LibreOffice would therefore make for a smoother experience for the users who rely on the format. Good luck to the contributors – we appreciate their work on these important features and improvements! And thanks to our mentors for assisting them: Khaled Hosny (Alif Type); Jonathan Clark and Xisco Faulí (TDF). Between August 17 and 24, contributors will submit their code, project summaries, and final evaluations
RE: https://hci.social/@simulo/116472676727757676
Not a guide for an open source system, but useful for open source applications:
https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf
"This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces"
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