Lutz Hoeger, 16-01-2007 09:04:
Starting as an incubator, we would like to launch UX as a new project.
Some years ago, we took first steps towards "hijacking" the UI (user
interface) project and to transform it into a dual project, but we were
never serious enough about it, and so this failed. One reason might have
been, that the UI project was intended to be something very different:
in the beginning, it was targeted to developers, and it's main content
was the UI source code. Typically, UX people are not developers, and
don't deal with source code too much. But more importantly, the scope of
UX embraces more than UI only. Here is a first draft of our charter to
explain what makes up UX:
"We are the OpenOffice.org User Experience Community. Our intention is
to improve the usefulness and usability of OpenOffice.org for our users.
We work in close cooperation with development, quality assurance, Sun's
User Experience Design Organizations, marketing, documentation, and -
last not least - the OpenOffice.org community. We use methods and
strategies in the areas of user-centered software design, user research,
expert evaluation and UI-design to achieve our main goal, to make our
products more successful in the market."
It would be good to have more UI developers too.
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] of today looks like more [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the end the people from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will move, the web content will move and the UX people will have
a solid project.
I don't think anything breaks some UX person from joining [EMAIL PROTECTED], but
the new project could make the UX efforts more visible.
Maybe the best thing that could happend would be the user interface
developers to revitalize the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project.
It is very important since we're lacking developer resources on the UI.
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