On February 5, 2010, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Feb 05, 2010, at 08:57 AM, Brian Fromme wrote: > >As you probably know by now, our UI design expert, Martin Albisetti, has > >taken a new job within Canonical. This leaves us with the need to make a > >major change in the way we deal with UI reviews. I have met with Iain > >Farrell, the project manager for the Design group. We have agreed to be > > the points of contact for UI review requests from Launchpad to the Design > > team. > > While I'm pretty sad to see Martin go (our loss is U1's gain!), I'm glad > we're being proactive about addressing the continuing need for UI reviews. > > Martin had started the process of training new UI reviewers. AFAICT, > Michael Nelson is the only graduate from that process[1]. I believe > Curtis was being mentored for graduation and a few others of us had the > ability to do UI reviews if backed up by a second review. How will this > change now? >
It won't. > I wonder, does it make sense to put guidelines in place for UI reviews > based on the "size" of the user interface change being proposed? Almost > every branch affects the UI in some way, but trivial changes need less > review bureaucracy than medium size changes, which again need less design > team input than wholesale feature development or redesign. I think it > would make sense to try to classify design reviews along the lines of who > needs to be involved: > > * No UI involved, so no additional UI review needed > * Code reviewer alone can sign off on UI change > * Two UI mentats are required to sign off on the change > * A graduated UI reviewer must sign off on the change > * The UI design team must sign off on the change > > Of course, branch review is usually too late for the UI design team to be > getting involved, so guidelines about how and when to engage them early are > also needed. That's why before writing any code, we now have a UI design stage where mock- ups are produced and reviewed. > > Ultimately, we want as little overhead as possible, but enough to ensure > that Launchpad has a consistent and constantly improving user experience. > > -Barry > -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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