The Mozilla labs team, under Aza's leadership, is making headway in bringing usability test results into the collaborative environment. Zac Lym, a mozilla intern with mentorship from myself and others, has been doing tests and struggling to make these consumable to the Ubiquity development team. A combination of Vimeo for video hosting & tagging along with structured, written summaries has been the technique arrived at through much iteration: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_06#Discovery http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/10/
Back in the Netscape vs Mozilla days, some talented UI folks from the community make ASCII specifications of UI a fine art, much to the chagrin of some folks at Netscape who produced more polished deliverables. Historical post http://www.surfmind.com/musings/2003/02/21/index.cfm#index The pendulum has swung the other way with the MozConcept series where we saw concept videos with high-end production values from Adaptive Path. In the middle are the sketches and low-fi mockups we see on blogs and flickr (ex. http://www.lizblankenship.com/tabviz/?p=92)<http://www.lizblankenship.com/tabviz/?p=92> Trac and Bugzilla are not that inaccessible -- they support attachments and auto-hyperlink URLs. I'm not sure that I fully agree that the tools are "ill suited" though there's certainly room for improvement. - (a different) Andy On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Abbett <[email protected]>wrote: > <snip> > The point Andy makes above (about open-source versioning tools being > ill suited for design) is an important one... how do we set up the > infrastructure for OSS design collaboration? What's the SourceForge or > Google Code for designers? I imagine IxDA Labs could take a hybrid > approach... weave together a wiki, knowledge management tools, digital > whiteboarding... > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
