29 Apr
2011
29 Apr
'11
11:51 a.m.
Hi,
The homepage is relevant in the context of the "5 minutes" experience.
We have to make it very clear on what "5 minutes" we are talking about. Also
the separation between XE and XEM needs to be made because they are not the
same thing.
XEM
I struggled to install XEM (finding out what file to download, installing
mysql, starting xem, changing the max allowed packet, importing, etc). Then
I didn't know how to create a new wiki (expected to see it in the Add menu).
It's very clear that XEM process (installing and using) has lots of things
to be improved and the most important thing is to make also a separation on
the persona we are covering (the beginner user? the administrator? are
normal users gonna create new wikis (workspaces)?)
XEM homepage can be made for admins and provide statistics or it can be
exactly as XE (end user will not know the difference) and have the wiki
management in administration.
XE
XE homepage was somehow pimped with the new dashboard system. The current
content of the homepage is suitable, would need maybe some more
discoverability to show the user he can actually customize the homepage any
way he likes.
I really believe that we need some kind of "getting started" step
(documentation or guided or a layered tips system activated on certain time
+ events). But for this we really need to do the separation: user, admin,
developer and present only steps they are interested in.
- documentation + guided
Confl has some nice guided ninja steps:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEVAL/Become+a+Wiki+Ninja+with+…
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/
http://www.facebook.com/places/
http://www.facebook.com/facebook?sk=app_2392950137
- layered tips
http://konigi.com/interface/yahoo-buzz-voting
Thanks,
Caty
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:58, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi,
After having a bit of thought about the XE/XEM Home Page investigations, I
don't think the "home page" investigation is relevant.
I'd like to propose to split this investigation into 2 investigations:
1/ "XWiki in the first 5 minutes" investigation
How to improve XWiki's User Experience in the first 5 minutes with simple
or more complex changes in the home page but for all initial actions that
are made by a user/administrator when he starts with XWiki.
The objective of this investigation would be to list small changes that
could be implemented in the coming releases and list larger work that would
need their own investigation.
2/ XEM/Workspaces investigation
This investigation is about the next generation Multi-Wiki management
including creation of Workspaces with the management of application. New
features would be part of that as well as a redesign of the Wiki creation
and management UI.
On this matter there is already work in the Wiki 3.0 project with a
prototype delivered of this work, which is a great basis for discussion, in
which we need to bring some guidelines about the objective of these features
as well as User Experience proposals by Cati.
WDYT ?
--
Ludovic Dubost
Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/
XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
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