Great initiative Max! I would be happy to participate in this effort if I can be of assistance.
Ville On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 2:54 AM Maxime Beauchemin <maximebeauche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As mentioned at the bi-weekly community meeting, the team at Preset is > planning to sponsor an engagement with design agency Cartel > <http://carteldesign.com/> to assist the community in defining what the > future of Superset may evolve looking like. The folks at Cartel (cced) are > specialized in designing data-heavy, highly-interactive applications like > Superset. > > The effort will take place over September - October - November, and for > that engagement we'd like to assemble a small interest group (6-8 people) > that can help shape the direction of this effort, from across the > community. We'd like for the major contributors to be represented, and for > representation to be roughly be based on merit accumulated so far. The > folks at Cartel told us they've had much better success working with > smaller group so we're trying to respect that. > > People who want to get involved should: > * be able to commit 2H+ a week over those 3 months > * have a history of involvement in the project, merit and/or merit > representation > * a deep understanding of the product > * design sense + good UI / UX intuition > * understanding Superset use cases and users > > We'd also like to be able to communicate progress throughout the process > and offer a way for the people from the wider community to provide > feedback. One or two people in the interest group will be in charge of > communicating in and out as we move forward. > > The interest group will define what areas to focus on and the deliverables > as we engage with the agency. My personal intuition going into this is that > we'll prefer to go wide and shallow as opposed to dig super deep into a > small set of specific area. Though we'll likely focus on core-ux workflows > like content creation, and tying up the different pieces of Superset > together. We may explore new areas like spreasheet-type interactions, > notebooky-type interfaces and things of that nature as well. In any case, > expect to see lots of wireframes! > > We do not intend for the designs produced during this engagement to be an > absolute for the future of Superset, but instead as an inspiration and > guiding material to build upon as we work on individual PRs. > > Anyhow! Please reach out if you're interested or have feedback on the > process. We're intending to report progress on the mailing list as we go. > > Thanks, > > Max >