UX Session

[Alessandro Longo]

In data martedì 5 gennaio 2016 09:22:10, Heiko Tietze ha scritto:
> Happy new year to all UX aficionados,
> 
> there is currently a very interesting discussion ongoing about an
> enhancement of Dolphin. But there are luckily a lot of other topics on the
> review board and the mailinglist that asks for opinions from the usability
> team. I believe this is an excellent advancement. However, UX is "degraded"
> to a part of QA which works for the localization team and for design tasks
> (no need to have final art works when the coding starts) but not so good
> for usability (basic workflow, GUI interaction concepts, target group etc.)
> as well as accessibility.
> 
> At Libreoffice we have a weekly hangout where news and bugs are discussed
> and work is allocated. Additionally we have established a "design session"
> during that we intensively discuss new dialogs (one per session only). The
> advantage is that people from the development, design and usability come
> together and bring in their special knowledge. For instance I am not the
> worst in drawing balsamiq mockups but would fail with hires, pixel-perfect
> inkscape examples.
> 
> So my suggestion is to have this kind of meeting for KDE as well. It's an
> offer to the developers to discuss their ideas, for ordinary users that
> have an idea how to improve KDE software, and to align us in respect to the
> bug/feature tracker. Opinions?
> 
> tl;dr; We should have a UX hangout for new features.
> 
> Cheers,
> Heiko

It's a really great idea! I'd like to join the meetings.