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Revision as of 17:11, 2 December 2015
Contents
OpenStack User Experience Mission
The mission of the UX Program is to support and facilitate cross-project efforts to improve the overall user experience of OpenStack. We provide user research to help teams identify any issues preventing adoption of their services as well as help the projects validate design and development efforts to address those issues. In addition, we help the project teams create solutions to address customer needs and pain points. Finally, we will provide the OpenStack community with visibility into any user experience issues related to inconsistency across projects.
The UX team is not prescriptive; our goal is to collaborate with OpenStack’s projects to create better experiences.
UX Workstreams
- Reviews Needed
- Approval Process
- IRC: #openstack-ux (at FreeNode)
- Team Meeting Notes
Getting Started
General Information
UX Program
- For additional information about OpenStack UX, the programs, team, etc., please refer to the UX Program Proposal.
Mailing List
- Please feel free to reach out to us via the openstack developer mailing list (openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org). In the subject, use the tag [UX] and we will be sure to see your question/request.
IRC
- An additional way to get quick feedback or have a discussion with the UX group is to join the IRC channel on freenode
#openstack-ux
. If you don't get an immediate response, feel free to ask again later or jump over to using the mailing list!
- An additional way to get quick feedback or have a discussion with the UX group is to join the IRC channel on freenode
Getting Involved as a Designer
Where can I ask questions or get feedback on my designs?
The team current uses an online tool called Invision to provided feedback on mocks. The best way to get an account is to post a request to the Horizon IRC and someone with admin privileges will grant you access to post your designs.
Generally, you would want to create a project in Invision and upload images to that project. The next step would be to post a link to that design in the Horizon IRC asking folks to provide reviews. The community has been very good about providing reasonable feedback and it's your choice whether or not to incorporate the recommendations.
User Research & Usability Activities
The community has been actively conducting user research/usability studies. The following are research and results from studies performed to-date:
- OpenStack User Research & Usability Studies (includes Results)
- Personas
- OpenStack User Surveys
- If you are going to do your own research, we'd love for you to contribute results or better yet, to collaborate with you.
Patterns & UX Best Practices
Horizon Pattern Document
A pattern library is a collection of design elements that appear multiple times across a site. The intent is to help drive consistency by providing a common set of buttons, tables, workflows for a given interface.
Please feel free to edit the document if you would like to add content or make changes!
Horizon Assets Library
The UX Team has created an assets library for Horizon that includes components that would be useful in creating mockups of new designs.
There are current two libraries. The first is a more generic library that includes png images of common components that could be used with virtual any graphics or presentation tool such as Keynote or Ink. The second library was specifically created for Balsamiq (balsamiq.com) and includes groupings as well as components that are native to that specific tool.
Helpful Links
OpenStack UX projects and planning
OpenStack foundation board members
UX Achives and Etherpads
UX Archive
Community Sites (old, in transition)
On mobile applications development read more here.
For User centered UX design read more here.
UX Discussions at OpenStack Summit Etherpads
- Liberty Design Summit (Vancouver, May 2015) Horizon Etherpads
- Kilo Design Summit (Paris, Nov 2014) Horizon-UX Etherpad
- Juno Design Summit (Atlanta, May 2014) Horizon Etherpads
- Icehouse Design Summit (Hong Kong, Nov 2013) Horizon Etherpads
- Havana Design Summit (Portland, April 2013) Horizon Etherpads