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[Next Meeting's Agenda]

Feb 20/21 2008 at 21:00 UTC time
(2pm PST/5pm EST/8am Sydney)

Note: Time Updated for DST

Notes from previous meeting:
2008-02-20 Agenda and Notes
All meeting notes: Meetings

Design Patterns

Sakai Design-Pattern Library - help us develop it!
Open Source Design Pattern Library - over at FluidProject.org

This is the home page for the Sakai Discussion Group on User Experience.
Visit Collab to view the Email Archive for this discussion group.

Our goal is to provide a cogent, prioritized list of UI changes that must be made to make Sakai a viable CMS/Collaboration system from an End user's perspective. Toward that end, we collect examples of actual usage as well as projected usage from idealized user personas; we are always seeking new information about user needs and usability.

We also share local interface fixes and seek strategies for empowering user-centered design within a decentralized organization where much work is done on a quasi-volunteer basis.

Featured New Resource: Sakai UX Issues & Discussions Log

Current Activities 2007

Meetings Wednesdays/Thursdays at 21:00 UTC time

5pm US Eastern / New York
2pm US Pacific / Los Angeles
8am (Thursday) Australian Eastern / Sydney

Conference Call Info
Dial-in #: 1-812-856-7060
Conf code: 350 #
PIN: 72524 #

Note: The Design Patterns Working Group (WG) and the UI Roadmap WG have merged into a single weekly UI meeting.

Other Current Projects

This space contains:

Working Groups Spaces - All UI related WGs are listed here
People - a list of who is interested in looking at UI issues
Sakai 2.4 Consistency Check - An effort to eliminate some of the easy to address inconsistencies in Sakai's UI
Newport Beach Sakai UCamp Planning
Amsterdam U-Camp Planning
Design Patterns 'Home'
Design Patterns Library
Design Patterns Documents
UI Roadmap WG
User Testing Results
Usage Reports - for usability-related reports of actual Sakai usage
Style Guide - discussion about the style guide and future changes
CSS - CSS (skin) information is here
Sakai screenshots - example skins from community insitutions
Issues - What are the issues you have found
Prototypes - where visual mock-ups are posted to evaluate and discuss
UI Practices
UI Cafe
Sakai UX Issues and Discussions

Poorly Populated

Institutions - Link back to your institution or add it to the growing list

Older

Skin Proposals for 2.4, 2.5 These were largely implemented for release 2.4
UI Accessibility - Information and links related to ensuring an accessible UI; 2.1 info
Austin Panel - For planning and for storing documents related to the Austin UI panel, 2005

These pages do not yet have any content:

UI Reference Papers
Use Cases - how do you think/have you observed people using Sakai
Priorities - ad hoc voting similar to how Duffy is working it in ENTR
Definitions - a glossary of terms so we are all on the same page

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