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== User Experience Project ==
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{{Note | '''<big>IMPORTANT&nbsp;NOTICE :</big>'''
  
* [http://ux.openoffice.org User Experience Project on OpenOffice.org]
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<big>'''Effective May 14, 2012 this OpenOffice.org User Experience Page has been archived and replaced by a new [[Apache OpenOffice User Experience|Apache OpenOffice User Experience]] home page.'''</big>}}
* [[User Experience ToDo List]]
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== People ==
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* [[User Experience Community]] for OpenOffice.org
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== Communication Channels ==
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== OO.o UX Activities and Work in Progress  ==
; [[IRC Communication]]
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: we have our own channel at irc://freenode/ux.openoffice.org
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: [http://seerofsouls.com/wiki/SeerOfSouls/IrcEtiquette IRC Etiquette]
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; Mailing list: [mailto:discuss@openoffice.org discuss@openoffice.org] ([http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=discuss web archive], [http://groups.google.com/group/uxooo/topics google web archive (does not work/[[User:Mmp|Mmp]])], [http://groups.google.com/group/uxooo/feeds google feeds])
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; Blogs
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: [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/user-experience GullFOSS blog postings on user-experience]
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: [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/feed/entries/atom?tags=user-experience Subscribe to user-experience related postings on GullFOSS]
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: [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tD0GZQLI2xGmcr70qGIyXQ '''Yahoo! pipes''' aggregation of blogs related to our project] (web version)
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: [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=tD0GZQLI2xGmcr70qGIyXQ&_render=rss Subscribe to an RSS feed for the above] (rss link)
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== Documents ==
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*[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_icons_i-team ODF Mimetype Icons Redesign] -&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Great reference material. Recommendation: Move to OO design archive.'''
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*[[Renaissance|Project Renaissance]] - Create a '''User Interface''' so that OpenOffice.org becomes '''the users' choice''' not only out of '''need''' but also out of '''desire'''. '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Create initiative, a lot of great content. Some outdated material. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[User Experience/Activities|Current Activities]]&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated activities. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[User Experience/ToDo|ToDo List]]&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated ToDo List content. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[User Experience/ToDo/Competitor Software|Competitor Software Analysis]] 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Really outdated content. Recommendation: Create new competitor page. Move former to OOo archive. <br>
  
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== The OO.o User Experience Team  ==
  
=== Usability Reports ===
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The User Experience Team (UX team) works to make OpenOffice.org the best office suite in terms of '''usability''', '''productivity''' and '''enjoyment'''.  
* [http://www.relevantive.de/Linux-Usabilitystudie.html Linux Usability Study] by relevantive GmbH, Jul 2003; [http://www.linux-usability.de/download/linux_usability_report_en.pdf report_en.pdf], results on OOo starting at page 34
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* [http://ux.openoffice.org/reports/2001/berkeley/ StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: Improving the Usability of an Open Source Spreadsheet Application]. [http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/alumni/susannebrokaw Susanne Eklund], Michal Feldman, and Mary Trombley. University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2001
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* [http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/everitt/projects/is271/is271.html A Usability Comparision of Sun StarOffice Writer 5.2 vs. Microsoft Word 2000]. [http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/everitt/index.html Katherine Everitt], Scott Lederer. University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2001
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*[http://ux.openoffice.org User Experience Project Home on OpenOffice.org]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Active blog. Recommendation: rename blog, links and anchor link in this page to all include "Apache" reference.'''
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*[[User Experience/Community|List of the team members]] '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated members list. Recommendation: Move list to OOo archive, create new UX community list, link new page to this page.'''
  
=== Specifications ===
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== How to work with OO.o UX?  ==
* [http://specs.openoffice.org/ UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and later versions]
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* [http://ui.openoffice.org/proposals/index.html UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 1.1.x]
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*How to [[HowTo Request User Experience Assistance|request assistance from the UX team]]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.'''
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*How to [[User Experience/Community/How To Join|join the UX team]]&nbsp;''''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE ''-'''''<i>'</i>'''Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.'''<br>
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*How to [[User Experience/How To Contribute|contribute to the UX team work]] '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.'''<br>
  
=== Guidelines ===
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* OpenOffice.org [[User Interface Guidelines]]
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* General [[UI Style Guides]]
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== OO.o UX Communication Channels  ==
  
=== Publications ===
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* [http://ux.openoffice.org/reports/2007/vbg/up07-uidvbgsun.odt Inhouse und Open Source Projekte – Usability verankern und Synergien nutzen], Usability Professionals 07, Weimar Sep 2-5, 2007 by Ronald Hartwig, Maren Mäuselein, [[Matthias Müller-Prove]], [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Cj Christian Jansen]
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* [http://ux.openoffice.org/reports/2007/interfaces/ User Experience for OpenOffice.org]. [[Matthias Müller-Prove]], interfaces #71, 2007
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! Communication Channel
* [http://www.mprove.de/script/04/chi/index.html Professional Usability in Open Source Projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans]. short paper for CHI 2004 by [http://www.iol.ie/~calum/ Calum Benson], [http://www.mzourek.org/ Jiri Mzourek], and [[Matthias Müller-Prove]]
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* [http://www.mprove.de/script/03/ooocon/index.html User Experience Panel] at OpenOffice.org Conference 2003
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! Help
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| '''Mailing List'''
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[mailto:discuss@ux.openoffice.org discuss@ux.openoffice.org]  
  
=== General Resources (other than OOo) ===
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'''2012 05 10 - UX&nbsp;WIKI REFRESH NOTE - this mailing list is inactive. Address is not valid. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, propose and create new AOO&nbsp;UX&nbsp;mailing list.'''
* [http://flossusability.ist.psu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Floss Usability Special Interest Group]. A follow-up wiki for the CHI 2007 SIG titled ''Usability and Free/Libre/Open Source Software SIG: HCI Expertise and Design Rationale''
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* [http://www.mprove.de/script/07/interfaces/osusability.html mprove: Resources on Open Source Usability]
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Related mailing lists: [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList User Experience mailing lists]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Dead link. Recommendation: Remove.'''
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As Newsgroup: [http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience GMANE gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Metrics point to old email address. Recommendation: ask community if we want to track traffic.&nbsp;'''
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As Feeds (RSS): [http://rss.gmane.org/messages/complete/gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience GMANE all messages with complete text], [http://rss.gmane.org/messages/excerpts/gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience GMANE all messages with excerpted text], [http://rss.gmane.org/topics/complete/gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience GMANE topics with complete text], [http://rss.gmane.org/topics/excerpts/gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience GMANE topics with excerpted text], [http://groups.google.com/group/uxooo/feeds Google feed]&nbsp; '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Metrics point to old email address. Recommendation: Remove.'''
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As Archives: [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=discuss OpenOffice.org web archive], [http://groups.google.com/group/uxooo/topics Google archive (only last 6 days)]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Inactive OOo google group. Recommendation:&nbsp;Remove link.'''
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*Please subscribe to the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList mailing lists] before posting.'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Points to outdated page.&nbsp; Recommendation: Remove link. '''<br>
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS What is a RSS feed?]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated content. Recommendation:&nbsp;Move to OOo UX archive.'''
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irc://freenode/ux.openoffice.org
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc What is IRC?]
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*[http://seerofsouls.com/wiki/SeerOfSouls/IrcEtiquette How to behave (IRC etiquette)?]
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*'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Take action based on community thoughts on IRQ. See left pane.'''<br>
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[http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog]
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'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Active blog. Recommendation: rename blog, links and anchor link in this page to all include "Apache" reference.'''<br>
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Related blogs: [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/user-experience GullFOSS blogs on "user-experience"], '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Dead link. Recommendation: Remove.'''
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Aggregation: [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tD0GZQLI2xGmcr70qGIyXQ Yahoo! pipes aggregation (blogs related to our project, web version)]&nbsp; '''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated content. Recommendation: Remove.'''
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Feeds (RSS): [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/feed/entries/atom?tags=user-experience GullFOSS Subscribe blogs on "user-experience"], [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=tD0GZQLI2xGmcr70qGIyXQ&_render=rss Yahoo! pipes aggregation (blogs related to our project)]&nbsp;'''2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - See above.'''
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog What is a blog?]
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== OO.o UX Documents and Resources  ==
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*[[User Experience/Resources|User Experience Resources]]&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[User Experience/Tools|User Experience Tools]]&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[User Experience/Myths about UX|Myths about UX]] '''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''<br>
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== OO.o UX Project Management  ==
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*[[/Project Administration|User Experience Project Administration]]&nbsp;'''UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Manu outdated links. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''
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*[[/Project Strategy|User Experience Project Strategy]] '''Project UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Manu outdated links. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.'''<br>
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Latest revision as of 13:50, 27 August 2021

Documentation note.png IMPORTANT NOTICE :

Effective May 14, 2012 this OpenOffice.org User Experience Page has been archived and replaced by a new Apache OpenOffice User Experience home page.



OO.o UX Activities and Work in Progress

  • ODF Mimetype Icons RedesignUX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Great reference material. Recommendation: Move to OO design archive.
  • Project Renaissance - Create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users' choice not only out of need but also out of desire. 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Create initiative, a lot of great content. Some outdated material. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • Current Activities UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated activities. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • ToDo List UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated ToDo List content. Recommendation: Move to OOo archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • Competitor Software Analysis 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Really outdated content. Recommendation: Create new competitor page. Move former to OOo archive.

The OO.o User Experience Team

The User Experience Team (UX team) works to make OpenOffice.org the best office suite in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment.

  • User Experience Project Home on OpenOffice.org 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Active blog. Recommendation: rename blog, links and anchor link in this page to all include "Apache" reference.
  • List of the team members 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated members list. Recommendation: Move list to OOo archive, create new UX community list, link new page to this page.

How to work with OO.o UX?

  • How to request assistance from the UX team 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.
  • How to join the UX team '2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE -'Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.
  • How to contribute to the UX team work 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Content could be re-used, all links are outdated. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, harvest re-usable content.


OO.o UX Communication Channels

Communication Channel Alternatives Help
Mailing List

discuss@ux.openoffice.org

2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - this mailing list is inactive. Address is not valid. Recommendations: move to OOo UX archive, propose and create new AOO UX mailing list.

Related mailing lists: User Experience mailing lists 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Dead link. Recommendation: Remove.

As Newsgroup: GMANE gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.user-experience 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Metrics point to old email address. Recommendation: ask community if we want to track traffic. 

As Feeds (RSS): GMANE all messages with complete text, GMANE all messages with excerpted text, GMANE topics with complete text, GMANE topics with excerpted text, Google feed  2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Metrics point to old email address. Recommendation: Remove.

As Archives: OpenOffice.org web archive, Google archive (only last 6 days) 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Inactive OOo google group. Recommendation: Remove link.

  • Please subscribe to the mailing lists before posting.2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Points to outdated page.  Recommendation: Remove link.
  • What is a RSS feed? 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated content. Recommendation: Move to OOo UX archive.
IRC

irc://freenode/ux.openoffice.org

2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Does not appear to be overly active. Recommendation: Survey community to see if they still want to use this tool.


Blog

OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog

2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Active blog. Recommendation: rename blog, links and anchor link in this page to all include "Apache" reference.

Related blogs: GullFOSS blogs on "user-experience", 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Dead link. Recommendation: Remove.

Aggregation: Yahoo! pipes aggregation (blogs related to our project, web version)  2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Outdated content. Recommendation: Remove.

Feeds (RSS): GullFOSS Subscribe blogs on "user-experience", Yahoo! pipes aggregation (blogs related to our project) 2012 05 10 - UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - See above.


OO.o UX Documents and Resources

  • User Experience Resources UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • User Experience Tools UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • Myths about UX UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.

OO.o UX Project Management

  • User Experience Project Administration UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Manu outdated links. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.
  • User Experience Project Strategy Project UX WIKI REFRESH NOTE - Some good stuff here. Manu outdated links. Recommendation: Move to OOo design archive, capture task to harvest relevant and actionable content.

 

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