User Experience UE Group Notes & Followup

User Experience for uPortal working Group
October 8th, 2008
10:45 - 11:15 pm Auditorium

• Portlet lifecyle and best practices being documented on the JASIG wiki.
• We may store something like what pattern tap has?
• Boxes and Arrows design document:
  • http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-challenge-of
  • http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/introduction-to-the
  • http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/building-block
• Upload screenshots of our portals and best practices
• USF has a screenshot gallery at:
  • http://www.stfrancis.edu/myusf
• JASIG Wiki has a document titled "Portlet & Channel UI Widgets"
  • http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1966582
• JASIG also already has a user experience section of the wiki and a mailing list:
  • http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/User+Experience
  • This already has user experience examples and deployed uPortals.
  • We should all sign up to the UE mailing list and revive it.
• A design goal should be to collect our notes and examples in a format that can be consolidated and used elsewhere.
• We can create our own accounts at pattern tap (patterntap.com) to upload and share screenshots of our portals.
• Can we create case studies on our portals and put them in the wiki?
• Have a followup session at the JASIG conference in the spring where people give lighting talks on their portal, show and tell, why they did certain things.
• Also give a followup session as the JASIG conference on the collective JASIG UE group knowledge developed and collected.
• Jason Shao to look into possibility of submitted the JASIG UE group findings at Educause too.