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. Here are the latest UCamp plans. Mark your calendars to come and participate!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 |
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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. | 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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