2006-09-25 Minutes

Attending: Mara, Kathy, Daphne, Colin, Mike E., Peter K., Kristol.

Agenda:

Who is the U-Camp Audience?
  • UI Designers
  • Anybody who care about and will effect the design of Sakai
  • Support people who see effects of UI first hand
Goals/Outcomes
  • Establish some priorities about UI issues we would like to see addressed in Sakai
    • Start of Sakai UI roadmap
  • Identify ways that UI group that can best be leveraged by community
    • Develop process around how a project could get help on UI design for tools.
    • Can we build some culture around bringing UI designers to the project and making available
    • Tools can build to help (such as design patterns or shared respository for user research)
  • What are the obastacles of good design in Sakai
    • How do we overcome them?
    • Identify projects that could test this out on
  • Designers to get together and come up with strategy for developing voice and methods for working within Sakai.*
  • Team building
  • Educate eachother
  • Educate on best practices and principles – setting the stage in "lightening talk"
    • Define UX and basic methodology
Topics/activities
  • Prioritization activity:
    • Brainstorm
    • User support people – top ten issues
    • Divide into groups for review and deep dive (following)
  • MORE TO COME ------
  • Some other possible deliverables/activities:
    • What are the top ten things that Developers should know about UI?
    • What are the top ten things you should know if you design in Sakai?
    • Show tools that has been designed and share positive aspects of design process
  • Design game?
Pre-conference activities:
  • Email and Survey to Institutional reps.
  • Prioritization activity
Action Items:

Ask Chuck what deliverables would benefit a UI roadmap (Mara)
Add u-Camp to Registration (Colin) Note from Colin: conference committee liked the idea and will be creating a new page for pre-conference event attendance
Survey (Mara & Daphne)

General thoughts:
Future U-Camps could grow from priorities and consultations to working on tools – this could be roadmap.
Note taking on wiki and projector

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