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Who is the audience and what is the goal of the u-Camp?
Potential Goals
- help developers develop code which concretely improve the product
- build trust help us as designers achieve our goals
- do work that helps real users
- work on something that would actually be implemented in uPortal
- help developers understand what User Experience is
- Helping developers become better designers or tips for thinking about users/design as they develop
- Understand scope of UX and get a sense of it -- they can make use of it, how they can collaborate with UX experts, etc. (not necessarily teach them to be designers)
Audience
- our audience at u-Camp will be primarily developers, not designers, other than us
Notes
- uPortal hasn't had a u-camp before, but Gary did present on UX at the last uPortal conference
- we only have a half day
- 2 hours of lightning talks - how developers can work with designers
- 2 hours of working on a real problem
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What will developers be able to take away from the u-Camp?
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- learn about different kinds of design**
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- learn about UCD/UX**
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- Lightbox**
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- what do fluid components mean to uPortal developers?
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- learn about UCD techniques
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- learn how to work with designers
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- show them activities we do - user tests
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- convince developers to work on pain points that came out of the walk-throughs
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- solve your design problem
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- Andrew Petro's Sakai-view portlet
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- ask uPortal folks what they think the 'hairy design issues' are that we could help them with
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- re-orderer implementation
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- fire-and-forget
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- - when uPortal launches an unrelated application (e.g. to use single sign on)
- Fluid Summit Summary
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- UX Walkthrough
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- Summary
** lightning talks Audience
- Mostly developers
uCamp goals:
- What is User Experience
- Helping developers become better designers or tips for thinking about users/design as they develop
- Understand scope of UX and get a sense of it -- they can make use of it, how they can collaborate with UX experts, etc. (not necessarily teach them to be designers)
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Logistics
- uPortal hasn't had a u-camp before, but Gary did present on UX at the last uPortal conference
- we only have a half day
- 2 hours of lightning talks - how developers can work with designers
- 2 hours of working on a real problem
- have right kind of intro and setup talks during lightning talks to encourage developers to attend the u-Camp - they will have a choice
Next Steps
- Allison: add mailing list info to main Fluid page
- Allison: review & post mtg notes
- Group: Put together list of potential topics in prep for sending uPortal list
- Barbara: Set up another mtg early next wk