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The Fluid Project will make a lasting impact on the user experience of open source software products. Fluid's reusable component library of reusable components and designer's and user experience toolkit will directly benefit developers and designers development teams as they continue to make UX improvements to their products over the coming years.
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Fluid will encourage new collaboration strategies for user experience work within distributed communities, emphasizing the value and importance contribution of contributions from non-coders coding responsibilities such as designers and testersrequirements research and synthesis, user interaction design, graphic design, and usability testing.
A User-Centered Approach to Development
Fluid's technical approach is in contrast to the familiar "tool silos" found in learning systems and portals today. Our user interface components will enable a more seamless and direct experience, placing them within the workflows and activities best suited to the user's goals. Fluid components will be flexible and cross-cutting, allowing designers and developers project teams to reuse them consistently within a variety of tools and portlets. Fluid will serve as a user provide an interface layer designed to meet the user 's expectations without requiring them to be aware awareness of the underlying technology.
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Fluid's vision for user preferences is one that reduces the burden on the user for managing preferences, allowing the system to automatically infer environmental preferences where appropriate. In cases where the user's judgment and control is most needed, Fluid will build preferences seamlessly into context, providing the user with a clear understanding of the effect their changes will have on the system.
Conclusion
At its core, the Fluid is a community that supports the ability of designers and developers to collaborate in a mutual and productive manner, resulting in supports collaboration between user experience experts and coders to produce software that works for everyone, regardless of ability.