Hi, Following the protocols for project proposal, I would like to propose the promotion of the User Experience (UX) project to become an accepted project.
User experience engineering is an essential part of the product development cycle. About one year ago, the Sun UX team 'went open source' by starting the user experience project on OOo (http://ux.openoffice.org). A lot has happened since then. The project has attracted ~70 project members and ~80 subscribers on its main mailing list. About halfway back in our short history, we conducted a short survey to find out about the level of satisfaction within our project, and to identify the most important gaps [1]. We worked on some of the issues, but quite honestly, there still is some way to go - the project isn't 'done', and I doubt that it will ever be. But most of the basics are well defined: we drafted a short 'how to join us' [2] (available even in Bengali!), the communication infrastructure [3] is in place and being used regularly, and we work on documenting the standards of our work and our interaction with the rest of the OOo project. There is a lot more about us on the wiki, to which you easily get when you start at our web home page. Developers from across other projects contact us when they work on UI relevant issues, and when they need UX assistance in other tasks. The collaboration isn't perfect yet, but our successful participation in many development projects helps us to continuously improve our relationship with the *entire* developer community. In most of the projects we have been involved with, we not only developed the visual or interaction design, but significantly contributed to essential steps like requirements analysis. The typical deliverables everyone knows about, that are mostly created by UX folks, are specification documents. So as a bottom line, UX contributes significantly to the overall product development process. It is as essential as QA or documentation. That's why I propose to promote UX to an accepted project. Please give me your thoughts on this (which might be as simple as '+1' ... ;-) ) Thank You. Lutz Hoeger project lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community Survey July 2007: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Survey_UX_July_2007 [2] How to join [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/HowTo_Join_the_User_Experience_Community [3] [EMAIL PROTECTED] communication infrastructure: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience#Communication_Channels --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
