October 23, 2007 Design Meeting

Design / UX Team Meeting

When:  October 23, 2007

Where: Fluid Breeze Room

Back-up: 
Sakai002
Conference Code: 350
PIN: 72524
Telephone: 812-856-7060 

Attendees

Daphne, Allison, Eli, Shaw-Han, Barbara, Colin, Gary, Mike Elledge, Kyle Russell, Paul, Erin, Kathy

Agenda

• Discuss card sorting applications Allison sent out - recommendations
• Review & discuss Colin's 1000 ft view of current work
• Review project plans for Working Groups
  • Component Design & Problem Spaces (File management & Navigation) - Daphne, File Management & Navigation Project Plan
    • Navigation
      • More Tabs design - Allison & Shaw-Han
        • 2.5 - almost complete
        • 2.6 - on hold until more user research done
  • User Research Project - Daphne, Research Project Plan, Relation to other UX Projects
  • Design Patterns / UX Toolkit - Allison
  • UX Walkthroughs - Paul
  • User Testing - Barbara
  • UCamps - Barbara
    • JA-Sig - implementing re-orderer as uPortal tabs
    • Sakai - implementing reorderer in Sakai?
• Lightbox (finalizing & testing & integration) - Daphne, Barbara & Shaw-Han
• Planning
  o High level planning in project chunks?
  o Granular activity planning within the working groups
  Thoughts on our status board - where should it live? What's the form?

Notes

Colin

• High level overview of ongoing projects
• Coming out of "quick win" mode
• Need to start thinking about new components to feed into dev process

Daphne

• Diagram of how the User Research will feed into component development
• Top down research supporting bottom-up development

Reorderer

• Still some design work left to do, preparing to use Reorderer at uCamps.

User Research Project Plan
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Research+Project+Plan

• How do we carry this out, who will be working on it?
• Perhaps 3 or 4 designers from different institutions
• How do we research Sakai and Uportal at the same time
• Do they have the same personas and scenarios and personas
• Is there enough overlap between them, or is it really 2 different projects?

How to prioritize the work, next steps?

• Should we break out into smaller groups, or should everyone be involved in all activities?
• Still looking for a project manager to help with co-ordination

How to move forward?

• Everyone should review project plans
• Perhaps we need to get all tasks into cardmeeting, and prioritize in there?
• Each project should probably have it's own meeting

Oct 31 Release

• Heuristic Walkthrough needs to be cleaned up so we can publish it
• DND Design Pattern published

Next Meeting will be Friday, Daphne will co-ordinate time offline.