Possibility of new skin for iGO Primo 2.4   

Possibility of new skin for iGO Primo 2.4

Postby olaviivalo » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:53 am

I have used most of navigation software packages from different vendors (Garmin, TomTom, Sygic, NDrive, CoPilot) but seems that best one is still iGO Primo 2.4 (from functional point of view). But it has (at least for me) one very big drawback: usability and UI design. It looks mostly either like crap or its usability is suffering big time, usually texts are too small and either there is problem with text size contrasts or color contrasts. Also alignment of different info boxes has no logic at all. IGO is ugly. I'm UI-UX designer so I most likely know what about I'm talking about.

I would be really interested to team up with some skin developer to create some professional level skin for iGO Primo 2.4. I'm able to "draw" out and plan all the interface graphical side (I would not shuffle things around too much and would not introduce any new functionality as there is no need for that) also plan and design all sub-parts whats possible, including professional looking icons. I would like to create high contrast skin suitable for many different usage scenarios, including for motorcycling but just not limited to it.

So, my question: Is there anyone, who is interested to team up with me and is able to do technical side of skin creation (coding)?
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Postby chas521 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:55 am

I would suggest that you go to the Dimka site and ask your request in their guestbook.
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Postby olaviivalo » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:52 pm

Yes, thats really good idea, but I failed (constantly) posting anything to it. Just gave up on that.
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Postby chas521 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:07 pm

Do you mean that you couldn't post in their guestbook at all?

EDIT: I just tried it myself -couldn't do it either. It seems that you have register first but I couldn't find out how to even do that.
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Postby chas521 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:32 pm

There is a member who was [is?] interested in producing skins. His name is miomoshe. Try sending him a PM.
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Postby olaviivalo » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:40 pm

Did that, thanks. Lets see what comes out from it.
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Postby chas521 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:41 pm

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Postby Bazoon » Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:43 am

I don't know if this is allowed but here goes....... have you tried [Please Register or Login to download file] it has some good dimka skins there for primo2.4.

cheers...Baz
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Re: Possibility of new skin for iGO Primo 2.4

Postby szohar » Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:24 pm

Hi,

I will be interested in helping developing a more user friendly skin, I have lots of friends with motorcycles that using iGo and few things need to be changed.

Please let me know.

Thanks
Sharon
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Re: Possibility of new skin for iGO Primo 2.4

Postby jtrosky » Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:43 pm

FYI - there is a motorcycle-specific skin out there called "Primo Moto Edit". It's a take-off of the Decent skin (my favorite). Just an FYI. I can post a link to it if you'd like (need to find it first).

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