Hi Dan,
Hmm, seems like I missed a large chunk of the subscribers of the users
list. Sorry for that.
In my proposal, I tried to explain very brief, what user experience
design (UX for short) is about. Maybe I should have included a pointer
to a general definition, like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience ?
Or are you asking what kind of UX work actually happens within
OpenOffice.org? Well, there is two types of an answer to this. One would
be a more or less detailed list of actual UX contributions within
feature specs, issues, mailing list discussions, etc. The other one is a
more general one: UX - i.e. user experience design - is an essential
part of how OpenOffice.org (the product) is being developed. Features,
requests for enhancement, and in some cases even bug fixes are discussed
between engineering, QA, documentation, and UX. While the underlying
architecture of a feature is developed mostly by development engineering
("coders", just for the sake of clarity, not to under estimate the work
done by them!), user experience does most of the interaction design and
the graphical and textual user interface design.
This won't change by making UX an own OOo project or incubator. But as
UX is about more than what we can bring into various feature designs,
there is a need to collect all the other important work results from
this team, e.g. UI style quidelines, user research results, design
studies, ...
Is this a better explanation about why we would like to have a UX
project, and what it would be?
Thanks, Lutz.
Dan Lewis wrote:
While there may be a valid reason for an UX project, what is
contained in this message I got makes absolutely no sense. I still
have no idea what UX is about nor why it should be a project. It
would be nice if it were written in a way that I as a user of OOo
would understand its importance.
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