U-Camp Planning - JA-Sig UnConference

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

The U-Camp is 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.

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
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

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
Accessibility Evaluations	30 minutes	Simple ways to do an accessibility evaluation	Colin Clark
Questions on Accessibility Evaluations	15 minutes
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
User Test of Sortable Tabs and questions	30 minutes		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.