Difference between revisions of "GPG guide/Visual Design Ideas"

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* Sidebox explaining why it's important that GPG is free software?
 
* Sidebox explaining why it's important that GPG is free software?
 
* The network effect (the more people that start using GPG, the more reason there will be for others to join)
 
* The network effect (the more people that start using GPG, the more reason there will be for others to join)
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* GPG vs. PGP vs. GnuPG

Latest revision as of 12:13, 20 May 2014

  • Screenshots?
  • Cartoons of dialogue boxes with things filled in, to act as a more generalized thing which doesn't look out of date between operating systems and versions of software, but still has some of the effect of a screenshot of a filled in dialogue box
  • Snippets from the infographic that refer back to the mental model the user has created by reading the infographic. For example, the infographic explains that there is a keyserver and two communicating parties, then at the step where someone uploads their key to the keyserver, we use the same image of a keyserver.
  • Animated gifs?
  • Visualizations of the Web of trust are important. We had even considered doing an infographic on it, and if we have extra time, we should
  • Any ideas you like from the infographic breakout on the Textual Draft page that don't fit in the infographic

Ideas for sideboxes

  • Potentially a sidebox about weaknesses in this system linking to an external resource about general good security practices and why you should just use free software instead of windows. This message could also/alternately go at the end of the Windows guide.
  • Sidebox explaining why it's important that GPG is free software?
  • The network effect (the more people that start using GPG, the more reason there will be for others to join)
  • GPG vs. PGP vs. GnuPG