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!
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.
This meeting will also afford the rare opportunity for design and architecture to discuss and work on issues together in the same room.
Based on the current Unconference planning we will have a 1/2 day for the U-Camp.
Latest Meeting Notes
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.
Lightning Talks UCD focused
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 |
Putting Lipstick on the Pig |
Gary Thompson |
How to Associate "Sleek" and "Elegant" with "Portal" |
Gary Thompson |
Design Patterns Intro |
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. |
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
- 5 mins - Welcome and Introductions - Colin
- 25 mins - Web Accessibility Techniques - Colin
- 30 mins - What is User Centered Design? (see topics list below) - Gary/Allison
- 15 mins - Outline of the following activities - Barbara
- 15 - 30 mins - Mock usability study - Barbara/Shaw-Han/Allison/Gary/Others??
- 1.5 - 2 hours - Work topic with developers: Reorderer into uPortal tabs/content blocks - UE + Dev
Design Project with Dev
- Reorderer for tabs in uPortal
Topic |
Time Duration |
Description |
Contributor |
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Accessibility Evaluations |
30 minutes |
Simple ways to do an accessibility evaluation |
Colin Clark |
Questions on Accessibility Evaluations |
15 minutes |
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Introduction to UCD and its Processes |
30 minutes |
What is UCD? What do designers do? How can they work with developers? |
Gary & Allison |
Questions on UCD |
15 minutes |
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User Test of Sortable Tabs and questions |
30 minutes |
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Barbara |
Holistic Design Exercise with entire group |
30 minutes |
Discuss results of user test and present wireframe design ideas |
Gary/Allison/Barbara/Paul |
Small group work |
45 minutes |
Each group creates/implements their solution to fix problems |
Gary/Allison/Barbara/Paul |
Compare solutions |
30 minutes |
Each group presents their design ideas and why they created them. |
Gary/Allison/Barbara/Paul |
Wrap-up |
5 minutes |
Thank everyone for coming and encourage dev to work with designers during rest of the week. |
Barbara |
Total Time |
3 hrs 50 mins. |
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