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User Experience Task Team

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UX Mission

This Team sets and develops User Experience direction for both the releases of Foswiki, its Website and its sub server. It builds the foundation on which our devs can code the most powerful and easiest to use Wiki and web application platform on the planet!

It can delegate Experience related work to the WebsiteFacilitatorTaskTeam, who work to keep the system running, and to developers.

Discussion

UX Vision

Create the web collaboration platform with the most pleasant user experience!

Minimize the learning curve for newcomers and help more experienced users to release the platform's full potential.

UX Goals

establish a development framework (wireframes and storyboards as drivers for architecture and design)
help people get up to speed regarding UE concepts
establish UserExperienceGuidelines
establish a development framework (wireframes and storyboards as drivers for architecture and design)
help people get up to speed regarding UE concepts

The Team

Wanna join? Add yourself to the participants list and tells us what you are interested in? What would you like to contribute to strengthen Foswiki user experience.

Name	UX skills	What I'd like to improve	What I'm currently working on
CarloSchulz	Usability Engineering, Interaction Design, CSS and Visual Design to a certain degree	The general look and feel, the way one interact with a topic, removing the implementation centricity from the UI and shift towards a user centered interface	RethinkingTopicInteraction, RethinkingTopicInteractionPrototype
PaulHarvey		Workflow: Editing, Navigation	WysiwygTaskTeam
MartinSeibert	Usability Engineering, Experience from expert usability analysis and professional user tests in the company, I am working.	The general surface, interface of main actions, reduce clutter, kill not necessary options	I want to blog about initiatives, that I saw from Carlo and Arthur. They look great.
ArthurClemens	UX Strategy, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Frontend programming	User flow, workflow, so basically all current templates and their connections	RethinkingTopicInteraction, RethinkingTopicInteractionPrototype
MichaelDaum	webdesign, web-developer, practical usability experience, information achitecture	further tasty design & usability; I'd like to see a theming community for Foswiki	UX related extensions: JQueryPlugin, NatSkin, NatEditPlugin, UploadPlugin, ImagePlugin, ImageGalleryPlugin

UX Projects

Active projects:

See UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects - a hub for all sub projects (ongoing, past and future projects. There will be proposals and tasks as a result from these sub projects.

Topics that may become a seperate UX Project:

"More options" screen (also called "More actions" in NatSkin)
- NewLayoutForMoreScreen
Provide a notification mechanism to give feedback on user actions
- RelayAlertsToTopicTop

Resources and starting points

See UserExperienceHub for further information regarding usability and user experience.

Some good reads on usability and open source:

KDE Usability Project - Good input for organizing our own efforts.

Discussion

Carlo, could we have a status update, please?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 09 Dec 2009

I'm not sure where to put this, it doesn't quite deserve a task or a feature proposal.

But the purpose/function/documenation of WEBBGCOLOR should be reviewed. I myself fumbled at understanding what it did when I became a Foswiki/tmwiki dude.

This thought is prompted by an irc question here and here.

-- PaulHarvey - 30 Dec 2009

The team is currently working on the wireframes for a new release skin (for details see the list of projects below). We agreed on the general concept of topic interaction. Right now we are in the process of designing and discussing the actual look and feel of screens (eg. view, edit, attach, history, new). My assumption is that we are going to have an agreement on the general look and feel of the most important screens (view and edit) by the end of this year. Maybe earlier

-- CarloSchulz - 10 Dec 2009

This team is abandoned now for a long time now. Therefore we should clean up the mess, archive it and start from scratch.

-- MichaelDaum - 12 Mar 2014

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Summary	Sets and develops User Experience direction for both the releases of the software, the Website and its sub servers
Team lead
Participants
Charter Date	3 Nov 2008
Next Review Due	Once association is formed
Status	Closed
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