[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Define a set of User Experience guidelines for XWiki

Hi Devs, Following-up on Caty's email ( http://markmail.org/message/3vukpehxeiflfjfw) I'd like us to get a bit more organized when it comes to improving XWiki's User Experience. This would allow us to make the product better and to gather more feedback from the community (such as Thibaut's email, see http://markmail.org/message/3bdk4jaziuqs6zvi ). In order to make our product great I think it would be good for us to agree on a set of standards and best practices related to UX. There are 2 levels to this initiative: 1. Agree on a set of broad rules 2. Agree on the implementation specifics for each rule A broad rule is a general rule that has to be followed when designing & coding a new feature: 1. "Always design a feature with one or more specific personas in mind" 2. "Respect consistency -> all UI items in XWiki should look & behave in the same way" Specifics are details related to the implementation of any given rule: 1. Choose the style to use for all buttons (see http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/ for examples) 2. Define the personas we're targetting (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveXWikiUserExperience for examples) I'd like to get your feedback on the following points: - Is that a good idea overall? - Do you think we can make it an integral part of our development process? If the feedback is positive I'll start a discussion about the general UX rules we should make XWiki follow, then new ones for the specifics of each rule once we've agreed on some or all of them. Thanks, Guillaume -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/