Nemein is sponsoring a contest to design a new user interface to the Midgard Open Source Content Management System. The winning designer will receive an iPod Mini portable music player.

The Authoring Interface System is the main editing and administrative interface seen by users of Midgard CMS. While several accessibility and usability improvements have been made, the current AIS interface looks quite boring and industrial:

To fix this situation we're looking for a new, standards-compliant design of the interface. The design should follow these points:

• Midgard is a heavy-duty, reliable Content Management System
• Midgard follows Open Standards (therefore the UI should be built on XHTML and CSS following WAI guidelines)
• Midgard's "fiery" color scheme
• GNOME's color palette and visual guidelines (where applicable)

Go to the contest page to get more information.