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~jayshao - user experience gatekeeper for myRutgers
~edalquist - U of Wisc, not much of UI guy, but interested
Marc Germain - University Levalle CANADA French-speaking
Richard Spencer - UBC
Jeff Brewster - VT Programmer, interested in knowing more about UI
Shawn - RIT interested in mobile use-cases
Jen Bourey
- Yale
not directly involved, interested, most important for user adoption
???
Evaluating, don't do any UI,
Tom Freestone
- BYU
If users aren't happy I'm not happyU Manchester
Joni
- Manchester
Bobby Brill
- Portal Manager NYU
existing portal, interested in stealing ideas for homegrown, considering uP
J Helwig
- Wisc
interest in cont dev
U south calif
portal for admin systems
resp for UI
Jon Atherton - Cornell
: Product manager for infrastructure includes portal
E Mettsger
- Johns Hopkins
uP 2.5
ready to take next steps
J Jonathan Markow
- Board
Board – really excited about attention to user experience, critical to success of project, hasn't gotten attention it deserved
thurst of up3 George Lindholm
UBC 2.0 --> 2.5
UBC
similar look of channels
Aoron
Aaron Fuleki - Dennison
great adoption in breadth
looking to improve depth
UE critical
Jens Haeusser - UBC
Usability testing made users cry
most user interfaces suck, make them less suck
flexible UI project
Paul Zablosky, UBC
Marvin Addison
Tim Carroll, U of Illinois
rolling out big uP for all 3 campi
direction of layout manager, looking to make good choice
Colin Clark
Toronto
Inclusive Software Architect
Adaptive Technology Resource Center
Seeking Mellon funding Fluid project for addressing challenges of accessibility
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Administriva
Created a new New jasig-ue@lists.ja-sig.org user exp list
Jason: will compile minutes and links to resources
in a couple of days email out resources for continue discussJason context
Discussion
Intro: Product is powerful but complicated, technically interesting but polish issue, default presentation is dated to ugly, a lot of UE work at institution level rather than project level, like myRutgers, MUN, UW streamlined workflows, but base UE of portal hasn't changed a lot competitive pressures, Google Liferay D&D user expectations have increased websites can do this so they want our institutional IT to be on a similar level in terms of UE
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Gary: let's hear from Fluid project
Slides by Colin Clark from Toronto:
George L. re UBC webmail
approach that UBC is looking to take with lots of channels common navigation features, nav on left side, upgrade to consistency
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