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A session on user-centred design would be based on the very popular presentation given by Allison Bloodworth and Gary Thompson at the Rutgers Unconference.
User Research
User needs assessmentA presentation on "User Needs Assessment" or "Contextual Inquiry" could be of interest to several of the projects.
Design Patterns
Work is being done in the Fluid Project on the creation of design patterns, and a design pattern library. The intention is to have the library be federated with other pattern repositories. Since design patterns can serve as a common standard for design expression between developers and interaction designers, a design pattern session could be of interest to any of the conference attendees, and across all projects.
User Testing
The Fluid project has done a lot of work developing approaches and protocols for doing user testing in projects distributed across many sites – mainly with uPortal and Sakai.
Collaboration Opportunities
There are a number of specific areas where projects may find opportunities to collaborate with Fluid. In brief outline form, these include:
UX Toolkit
- user research
- share personas
- collaborate on modeling
- techniques/UCD approach (low cost)
- design patterns
- advice to accompany UI templates
- open source design patterns library
- user testing protocols
- UX walkthroughs (of existing systems)
UI Technology
- DHTML accessibility techniques
- portal-friendly DHTML
- advice on client/server architecture
- components if useful
- file-picker
- file upload
- sortable tabs
- reorderer