Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

[Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca>]

Interesting idea, it introduces the idea of accountability which I think 
is lacking in many ways right now with Gnome Usability.  But then the 
flip side of accountability is the ability to make changes.

Which leads to a question and a point.

Question: why did this not take off earlier Callum?

Point: We can plan all we want as uxperts, but what do the devs think of 
the idea?  Are they interested in taking UX advice from one person?  The 
question of trust and experience came up at the UX Hackfest in London 
and I haven't heard much since then.  If I were assigned to Anjuta for 
example, would the Anjuta team be interested in listening to my ideas?  
Is there an interview process, or some credentialing?

One other thought - how does this intercept with some of the ideas at 
OpenUsability.org?

Kirk



Allan Day wrote:
> 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
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