On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org>wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > How should we proceed to make sure UX (user experience) is properly > taken into account into OpenStack development ? Historically it was hard > for UX sessions (especially the ones that affect multiple projects, like > CLI / API experience) to get session time at our design summits. This > visibility issue prompted the recent request by UX-minded folks to make > UX an official OpenStack program. > > However, as was apparent in the Technical Committee meeting discussion > about it yesterday, most of us are not convinced that establishing and > blessing a separate team is the most efficient way to give UX the > attention it deserves. Ideally, UX-minded folks would get active > *within* existing project teams rather than form some sort of > counter-power as a separate team. In the same way we want scalability > and security mindset to be present in every project, we want UX to be > present in every project. It's more of an advocacy group than a > "program" imho. > > So my recommendation would be to encourage UX folks to get involved > within projects and during project-specific weekly meetings to > efficiently drive better UX there, as a direct project contributor. If > all the UX-minded folks need a forum to coordinate, I think [UX] ML > threads and, maybe, a UX weekly meeting would be an interesting first step. > ++ UX is an issue at nearly every layer. OpenStack has a huge variety of interfaces, all of which deserve consistent, top tier UX attention and community-wide HIG's-- CLIs, client libraries / language bindings, HTTP APIs, web UIs, messaging and even pluggable driver interfaces. Each type of interface generally caters to a different audience, each with slightly different expectations. > > There would still be an issue with UX session space at the Design > Summit... but that's a well known issue that affects more than just UX: > the way our design summits were historically organized (around programs > only) made it difficult to discuss cross-project and cross-program > issues. To address that, the plan is to carve cross-project space into > the next design summit, even if that means a little less topical > sessions for everyone else. > I'd be happy to "contribute" a design session to focus on improving UX across the community, and I would certainly attend! > > Thoughts ? > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- -Dolph
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