Hi all, A few of us GNOMErs attended a UDS meeting yesterday with the title 'Working Better with Upstream' (or something like that). One interesting idea that came out of that meeting was of each module/sub-project having a designated usability/design person. This User Experience Advocate (the name isn't that important; we don't have to use this name if we don't like it) would have responsibility for making design and UI decisions, looking after usability bugs, and would act as a liaison (both across projects and with downstream) on UI matters.
I think this is a great idea. It would enable us to prioritise user experience within our development processes and would make it possible to give those with usability and design expertise a bit more acknowledgement and responsibility within the project as a whole. It would also mean that we could have people who have an awareness of design and usability involved in development decisions. What do people think of this idea? How could we make it happen? Brian has suggested that we have a usability BoF at GUADEC: this could be a good topic to discuss there. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
