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| − | This page gathers comments about the User Experience project proposal, sent out on Jan 16, 2007. | + | {{User Experience}} |
| | + | This page counts votes for the [http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=59184 User Experience project proposal], sent out on Jan 16, 2007. |
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| | + | Update, Feb 02, 2007: '''Done with voting, the project went live a few days ago!''' |
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| − | == Original Proposal ==
| + | Thanks to everybody who gave us their vote. Please come and join the project at http://ux.openoffice.org! |
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| − | Subject: [discuss] Proposing a new User Experience project on OOo
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| − | Date : 16 Jan 2007 13:24:05 +0100
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| − | From : Lutz Hoeger <Lutz.Hoeger@sun.com>
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| − | To : discuss@openoffice.org
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| − | CC : users@openoffice.org, dev@ui.openoffice.org
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| − | Hi,
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| − | This message is cross-posted to discuss@, users@ and dev@ui, in order to
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| − | reach a broad audience. However, I would be happy if most of the
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| − | comments / discussion / etc. could be sent to discuss@ only (not sure if
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| − | the reply-to header works here).
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| − | WHAT
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| − | I would like to propose an OpenOffice.org User Experience (UX) project.
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| − | WHY
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| − | It is time to raise the curtain and to make OOo user experience
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| − | engineering more transparent to everybody who is affected or who is
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| − | interested. There has been a lot of discussion about UX work recently,
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| − | and to put it straight: being an integral part of OOo's product
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| − | development process, it simply is inappropriate for UX to act like a
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| − | "black box" component, especially since the entire development process
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| − | becomes more and more open.
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| − | In fact, UX work already happens in many places on OOo, e.g. as part of
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| − | feature specifications or spread across various issues. But there is no
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| − | central home base for our activity on OOo, which makes it hard to see
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| − | and understand what we do.
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| − | By increasing the visibility of our work, we make it easier to find,
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| − | understand, and comment on UX work. Even more important, we would like
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| − | to motivate others to participate and to contribute to the user
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| − | experience design of OpenOffice.org.
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| − | The new project shall serve as a single point of contact for all user
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| − | experience related inquiries, and vice versa, it should be the single
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| − | point to learn about possible areas of involvement in the UX space.
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| − | Last but not least, the UX project should serve as a link to other open
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| − | user experience projects, e.g. educational projects or other open source
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| − | projects.
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| − | HOW
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| − | Starting as an incubator, we would like to launch UX as a new project.
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| − | Some years ago, we took first steps towards "hijacking" the UI (user
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| − | interface) project and to transform it into a dual project, but we were
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| − | never serious enough about it, and so this failed. One reason might have
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| − | been, that the UI project was intended to be something very different:
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| − | in the beginning, it was targeted to developers, and it's main content
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| − | was the UI source code. Typically, UX people are not developers, and
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| − | don't deal with source code too much. But more importantly, the scope of
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| − | UX embraces more than UI only. Here is a first draft of our charter to
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| − | explain what makes up UX:
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| − | "We are the OpenOffice.org User Experience Community. Our intention is
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| − | to improve the usefulness and usability of OpenOffice.org for our users.
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| − | We work in close cooperation with development, quality assurance, Sun's
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| − | User Experience Design Organizations, marketing, documentation, and -
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| − | last not least - the OpenOffice.org community. We use methods and
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| − | strategies in the areas of user-centered software design, user research,
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| − | expert evaluation and UI-design to achieve our main goal, to make our
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| − | products more successful in the market."
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| − | So I propose to start with a new UX project. Where necessary, we can
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| − | move UX related content off the UI project and into the new one.
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| − | Regarding roles, I would like to start this project as the project lead.
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| − | Leading Sun's StarOffice UX team, I work on StarOffice and
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| − | OpenOffice.org for about ten years. Together with my team, I feel
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| − | thrilled to seed a hopefully growing UX community on OOo. As for the
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| − | Co-Lead of the new project, I would like to propose Matthias
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| − | Mueller-Prove, who is probably well known by many of you already. Since
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| − | 2002, Matthias works as a user experience engineer and interaction
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| − | designer at Sun.
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| − | AND NOW...
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| − | Please feel free to share your thoughts on this proposal. Again, I would
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| − | like to have the discussion taking place at the mailing list
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| − | discuss@ooo, but I will summarize and cross-post to dev@ui and users@ as
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| − | appropriate.
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| − | Thank You.
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| − | Lutz Hoeger
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| − | --
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| − | Sun Microsystems GmbH Lutz Hoeger
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| − | Nagelsweg 55 Sr. Manager User Experience StarOffice
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| − | 20097 Hamburg http://www.sun.de
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| − | Germany mailto:lutz.hoeger@sun.com
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| − | == Comments ==
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| − | Mathias Bauer, 16 Jan 2007 15:58:56 +0100:
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| − | This will be a very important and useful addition to our existing
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| − | projects, especially as this is a project that does not appeal to
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| − | developers primarily and so will allow a lot more people to contribute
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| − | to the project.
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| − | ...to be completed
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| − | == Questions ==
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| − | ...to be completed
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| | | || || Dan Lewis, Jan 16 | | | || || Dan Lewis, Jan 16 |
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| − | | align="center"| 7 || align="center"| 0 || align="center"| 1
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| | | Juergen Schmidt, Jan 17 || || | | | Juergen Schmidt, Jan 17 || || |
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| | | Eike Rathke, Jan 17 || || | | | Eike Rathke, Jan 17 || || |
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| − | | colspan="3" align="center" | Summary as of Jan 17
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| − | | align="center"| 15 || align="center"| 0 || align="center"| 1 | + | ! 15 || align="center"| 0 || align="center"| 1 |
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| | + | | Kazunari Hirano, Jan 18 || || |
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| | + | ! colspan="3" | Summary as of Jan 18 |
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| | + | | Christoph Noack, Jan 19 || || |
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| | + | | Oliver Specht, Jan 19 || || |
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| | + | | Louis Suarez-Potts, Jan 19 || || |
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| | + | ! colspan="3" | Summary as of Jan 19 |
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| | + | | Carsten Driessner, Jan 23 || || |
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| | + | ! colspan="3" | Summary as of Jan 23 |
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