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==Design Help Wanted==
 
==Design Help Wanted==
  
If you're interested in user experience and visual design work, we'd love to hear from you. We need people to get involved in the following areas:
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If you're interested in user experience and visual design work, or supporting the UX community effort, we'd love to hear from you. We need people to get involved in the following areas:
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===Community===
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Growing and sustaining the community in support of UX-oriented effort is an important goal for the program.
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'''Activities'''
  
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*mailing list participation
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*forum participation
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*wiki content management
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===User Experience Design===
 
===User Experience Design===
 
Through design research and strategic analysis, AOO UX seeks to gain insight into our users, their needs, and how they integrate OpenOffice into their life. Design research and analysis inspires and guides informed design. Design explorations and design concepts are created to realize our user's requirements. Design concepts are reviewed, tested, refined and crafted into a focused design direction. To turn ideas into reality, we specify, document, and deliver project details to the community for implementation. Our efforts support both the OpenOffice project's Web resources and the OpenOffice software. If you're interested in, or have expertise in research, design and evaluation methods, we want to hear from you!
 
Through design research and strategic analysis, AOO UX seeks to gain insight into our users, their needs, and how they integrate OpenOffice into their life. Design research and analysis inspires and guides informed design. Design explorations and design concepts are created to realize our user's requirements. Design concepts are reviewed, tested, refined and crafted into a focused design direction. To turn ideas into reality, we specify, document, and deliver project details to the community for implementation. Our efforts support both the OpenOffice project's Web resources and the OpenOffice software. If you're interested in, or have expertise in research, design and evaluation methods, we want to hear from you!
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** [[File:Ux_task_icon.png‎]] '''OPEN UX TASK - CALL FOR FEEDBACK''': Please review the AOO survey templates and share your feedback.
 
** [[File:Ux_task_icon.png‎]] '''OPEN UX TASK - HELP WANTED''': We need to determine how to deploy our surveys - which technology, which tools, who will manage.
 
 
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*user interface design
 
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** [[File:Ux_task_icon.png‎]] '''OPEN UX TASK - HELP WANTED''': All are welcome to contribute AOO 4.0 branding and logo concepts [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations]. No wrong answers, please share your designs.
 
 
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== UX Task Backlog  ==
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Visit the [[AOO UX Program - Task Backlog|UX Task Backlog]] for a listing of open tasks in need of volunteer support.
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== How to Get Involved?  ==
 
== How to Get Involved?  ==
 
For more information on how to join the AOO community, and start contributing to the AOO UX design effort, see:
 
For more information on how to join the AOO community, and start contributing to the AOO UX design effort, see:
* Get Involved [http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html]  
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* AOO Community - Get Involved [http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html]  
* Help Wanted [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted]
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* AOO Community - Help Wanted [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted]
** [[File:Ux_task_icon.png‎]] '''OPEN UX TASK - HELP WANTED''': Update Apache Help Wanted web page copy to promote volunteer opportunities within AOO UX effort.
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[[Category:UX]]
 
[[Category:UX]]

Latest revision as of 06:49, 12 October 2012

< AOO User Experience Home


Passionate about designing and delivering great software. So are we, join us!

With your help, we can make OpenOffice a great tool for people to create, edit and share any kind of information. OpenOffice helps people turn their ideas into documents.

Design Help Wanted

If you're interested in user experience and visual design work, or supporting the UX community effort, we'd love to hear from you. We need people to get involved in the following areas:

Community

Growing and sustaining the community in support of UX-oriented effort is an important goal for the program.

Activities

  • mailing list participation
  • forum participation
  • wiki content management


User Experience Design

Through design research and strategic analysis, AOO UX seeks to gain insight into our users, their needs, and how they integrate OpenOffice into their life. Design research and analysis inspires and guides informed design. Design explorations and design concepts are created to realize our user's requirements. Design concepts are reviewed, tested, refined and crafted into a focused design direction. To turn ideas into reality, we specify, document, and deliver project details to the community for implementation. Our efforts support both the OpenOffice project's Web resources and the OpenOffice software. If you're interested in, or have expertise in research, design and evaluation methods, we want to hear from you!

Activities

  • user research
  • task analysis
  • scenario authoring
  • information design
  • user interface design
  • interaction design
  • wire framing
  • prototyping
  • usability evaluation


Visual Design

Visual design is about creating stunning artwork to be used in the OpenOffice productivity suite, in the OpenOffice project's websites, wikis, forum, blogs, and in the OpenOffice project's marketing material. It is also about improving the quality and consistency of the visual branding language, which represents our whole community.

Activities

  • information graphics
  • visual branding
  • web site design
  • graphic user interface design
  • clipart design
  • template creation


UX Task Backlog

Visit the UX Task Backlog for a listing of open tasks in need of volunteer support.

How to Get Involved?

For more information on how to join the AOO community, and start contributing to the AOO UX design effort, see:

  • AOO Community - Get Involved [1]
  • AOO Community - Help Wanted [2]


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