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- Established a strong community of expertise and interest in usability and accessibility in the open/community source environment
- Significant education and outreach activities: four U-Camps to date, as well as presentations and evangelism
- Created a UX toolkit designed Design Handbook to help open source communities improve user experience:
- UX Walkthroughs, to help assess usability and accessibility
- UI design patterns: advice and guidance on building effective user interfaces
- User testing techniques and advice
- Worked with many communities to help with usability, accessibility, and JavaScript development requirements
- Pioneered new interactions for accessible drag and drop
- Created the Lightbox and Layout Customizer components and integrated them into several applications
- Established several primary strategies for the Fluid framework, including:
- Unobtrusive, markup-driven components
- Portal-safe markup binding
- Keyboard navigation plugins
- Support for multiple versions
- Released Fluid 0.1, including a diverse package of components, sample code, and documentation
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- Established all of the communication infrastructure required by a health open source community:
- Wiki
- Issue tracker
- Source code repository
- Mailing lists
- Continuous integration
- Videoconferencing
• Defined a comprehensive project roadmap, release plan, and component design strategy
• Defined and implemented community procedures:
• Security process
• Commit access and voting
• Licensing and contributor agreements
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Design Handbook and Design
- User Experience Walkthroughs
- Comprehensive protocols, checklist, and advice on how to do a UX Walkthrough
- Substantial walkthroughs of Sakai, uPortal, and Moodle, including accessibility evaluations
- Mentored the communities in doing their own UX Walkthroughs
- Contributed to the W3C's DHTML Style Guide working group, to help establish conventions for keyboard accessibility
- User interface design patterns
- Created three new UI design patterns related to drag and drop
- Established plan for the Open Source Design Patterns Library, the first truly open and collaborative repository for UI design patterns
- Collaborated with other communities and industry partners on design pattern best practices
- Defined user testing and contextual inquiry procedures
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