Re: [Usability] Usability Plans for GUADEC

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 20 Jul 2010, at 01:41, Brian Cameron wrote:

> 
> The GNOME Usability community has a couple of slots reserved for BOF
> sessions at GUADEC.  Note here:
> 
>  http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/BOFs
> 
> There is a "User Experience Advocates Discussion from 2-3pm on Monday
> the 26th and a HIG 3.0 Workshop from 3-6pm in Room 1 and Design
> Thinking Workshops throughout the day in Room 2.
> 
> I am interested to know more about what we plan to discuss and work on
> during these sessions.  I've read the Wiki pages, but it would be
> interesting to hear more detail and to hear from those people who will
> be giving sessions.  Is there any preparatory work we should do?  Any
> good books or websites to read beforehand or anything?

For the HIG workshop, there are probably two strands of work we can tackle:

* Start drafting up some concrete design patterns for the UI pattern library we want to get off the ground

* Decide what needs to go in the pattern library's companion document, which, if we decide we still need one at all, will probably be some kind of "HIG Lite" (compared to the current HIG)

See the section "HIG for 3.x" at <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG> for more details. Preparatory work would mostly involve familiarising yourself with the notion of a 'UI design pattern', the initial list of things we may wish to turn into GNOME 3.x design patterns, and the pattern template that we're planning to use, all of which you can find there.

We also need to decide exactly what format the library itself will take -- wiki, custom website, Mallard doc? -- but I'm not sure that's necessarily something we could or should decide at the workshop.  Although if Shaun's going to be there, it may come up :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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