Renaming Plasma Mobile Components and design philosophy to Kirigami

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Thu Feb 25 09:15:50 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>
wrote:

> Dear Subsurface (mobile) team,
> about two weeks ago, Marco came to the VDG (KDE's design group) asking for
> a
> new name for Plasma Mobile Components.
> The reasoning behind this request was that with them becoming their own KDE
> framework and Subsurface mobile showing that they work very well outside of
> Plasma Mobile, too, we don't want people to associate them strongly with
> Plasma Mobile.
>
> With that request, we started brainstorming. What we wanted the name to
> express was
> - Physicality (because it does have some similarities to Material Design,
> while still being quite different in some areas)
> - A tool for expressing your creativity in UI design
> - Moving layers of things (because of the central role of drawers)
>
> We had ideas like "slide", "paper" or "blocks" flying around, but then Alex
> Longo (who is behind many of the design ideas in the components) came up
> with
> Origami, which in turn led him to "Kirigami".
> For those of you who (like the rest of the brainstorming team) don't know
> what
> Kirigami is: It's a technique similar to Origami, which adds cutting to
> folding.
>
> It is physical, it is creative, kinda playful without being childish, and
> it's
> far less common than Origami, which helps with searchability.
>
> Like Material Design, Kirigami would be more than just a set of UI
> components,
> it comes with its own design philosophy documented in the accompanying
> Human
> Interface Guidelines.
>
> Since you are our first users outside of KDE, we'd like to inform you
> about the
> proposed name before we make it public.
>
> So if you see any significant problem with this name (any negative
> associations, any other framework with the same name that we are not aware
> of), now is the time to speak up!
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>

Actually I'm quite good with kirigami and origami :D

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