We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’.
Ubuntu 9.10 users will be likely using some of his artwork right now – the Humanity icon theme that is default in Karmic!
back on topic; I’m not here to least all of his wondrous achievements but simply share with you some his amazing Docky concept pieces.
Whilst, sadly/annoyingly/givethistomenow, these are still mock-ups, it shows a great spirit of design and UI flair that will not only benefit users of Docky by having him on board but, I’m sure, will make Dan a very wealthy man at some point!
So let’s take a gander!
VIDEO PLAYER
Docky becomes a HUD control panel to the video player in this mock-up. Not only does this look great but it’s really logical and a functional use of the Dock – which likely wouldn’t be needed when viewing video.
Even more excitingly Dan says that something along these lines will be possible in Docky2. Wow!
MAPS
The idea behind this is pretty self-explanatory and is a simple docklet affair.
AUDIO
The important part of this mock-up for people thinking “Docky already has tooltips” is not the tooltip but what is inside the tooltip – a volume control slider!
PLACES
“Stacks!” is what some people may scream when seeing this but doesn’t rush judgement on it being a simple clone.
By integrating a “bread-crumb trail” is shows that this is more interactive than just a ‘stack’ – it’s a mini file-browser!
More
You can see more of Dans works over on his DeviantArt page @
http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/
You can install Docky from teh Docky Development PPA (sadly sans these great features) @