Tag: Plasma Mobile

A phone running Plasma Mobile next to a laptop running Plasma

Plasma Mobile’s Vision

We’re currently in the process of designing the first phone user interfaces for KDE applications, applying the KDE Mobile Human Interface Guidelines (a set of soft rules and recommendations for designing user interfaces for mobile applications by KDE). Therefore, the third part of my blog series about the HIG creation still has to wait a …

Behind the scenes of the KDE Phone HIG – Part Two: The HIG creation process

As I wrote in part one of this series, we are currently creating Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for phone user interfaces for KDE applications. In this part, I want to tell a bit more about the process of creating these guidelines. This is rougly the process we’re planning to follow from the first idea brainstorming …

Behind the scenes of the KDE Phone HIG – Part One: Basic Assumptions

The Task Right after Plasma Mobile was first announced at Akademy 2015, the team put me in charge of the creation of a crucial pillar of the ecosystem: The Human Interface Guidelines for KDE phone applications. This means guidelines for “applications made by KDE for phones”, not “applications made for KDE Phone”, because There is no …