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U-Camp Planning - Bringing Design and Development together to create a better user experience.

The U-Camp is fast approaching and so we need to start planning.  I've started an email on the Fluid-work and also on the JA-Sig-UE lists.  I'm thinking people who are interested in presenting or have topic ideas can post them here on the wiki.  I'm going to post what I currently have received via email.  Please feel free to add your ideas here as well.over.  Thanks to all who participated!

Notes from one of the collaborative activities:
LMS Brainstorming Ideas

Overview

The JA-Sig U-Camp is an opportunity for members of the User Experience (UX) community to get together in a face-to-face environment and share our Design and User Interaction knowledge with interested members of the JA-Sig community.  We can discuss different User Experience techniques and ideas and look for ways they can help solve design problems in the JA-Sig community.  We would also like to have the JA-Sig community let us know how they would like UX to be more involved in community projects.  By the end of the U-Camp, we hope to have fostered a better understanding of User Experience and how it can be used in the JA-Sig community to better solve design problems keeping end-users' needs in mind.

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Based on the current Unconference planning we will have a 1/2 day for the U-Camp. 

 Latest Meeting Notes

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Topic Ideas

Lightning Talks will take place before the UCamp in the morning on a range of UE topics.  Signup below but also on official Lightning talk page.

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Getting Down with UCD

Gary Thompson

HTML: Neither Here Nor There

Gary Thompson

uPortal's Biggest User Experience Problems (and How I Know)

Gary Thompson Anastasia Cheetham

Putting Lipstick on the Pig

Gary Thompson

How to Associate "Sleek" and "Elegant" with "Portal"

Gary Thompson

Design Patterns Intro

Allison

What is Fluid?

Colin


What Designers do and how Dev and Design can work together What are user interface design patterns and how might they help anyone developing user interfaces and interactions? (Including info on Fluid plans for UI design patterns)

Allison

A Whirlwind Tour of the Fluid Project

Colin

Who contributes to a successful user experience?

Colin

A portlet is not a website - Proper exploitation of window states and edit modes.
Mechanisms to assist the content provider in providing a consistent experience for the user.

Paul

SSO as part of the user experience - Discussion on how Single Sign on fits into the user experience

Paul

Why come to a UCamp?

Barbara


Timeline - draft

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  • 5 mins - Welcome and Introductions - Colin
  • 25 mins - Web Accessibility evaluations Techniques - Colin
  • 30 mins - what is UCD What is User Centered Design? (see topics list below) - Gary/Allison
  • 15 mins - outline Outline of the following activities - Barbara
  • 15 - 30 mins - mock Mock usability study - Barbara/Shaw-Han/Allison/Gary/Others??
  • 1.5 - 2 hours - Work Topic topic with Devdevelopers: Reorderer into uPortal tabs/content blocks on mai - UE + DevObserve developers at work during project - mini contextual inquiry - Allison, others??

Design Project with Dev

  • Reorderer for tabs in uPortal 

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