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

+1 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:09, Guillaume Lerouge<guillaume(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Ecaterina Valica <valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> the way to do this is by documenting existing standards and using them in >> practice. >> >> Still consistency and designing for more specific personas in mind are two >> different things. One is about form and the other is about the >> logic/utility >> behind the form. >> >> Consistency is a priority no matter for how many personas we are designing. > > My point here wasn't to start debating the merits of a given rule. What I'd > like us to agree on is broader: do we want to start collecting and enforcing > a set of rules related to User Experience in the same fashion we have > defined a set of rules for development practices? > > Once we agree on that, we can start collecting rules and have each of those > rules voted upon so that they are validated by the community and become > official rules for the project. Whatever rules we choose to apply (be them > related to consistency or personas or anything else) we first need to have > the community vote on them. > > So here's my first question: do we want to create a set of official user > experience rules for XWiki? > > I think doing so would help us make XWiki a better product since user > experience is key in making a piece of software easier to use. Some user > experience guidelines (such as "using personas") can help us make sure all > the people involved in creating XWiki software have the same understanding > of XWiki users' needs. Other guidelines (such as "keep interfaces > consistent") would help us ensure that the software we create follows common > usability rules. > > Here's my +1 to the idea of having rules related to user experience when > developing XWiki software.