Designers & Hackers

Introduction to the way design is done on the LibreOffice design team for developers who'd like to incorporate it into their workflow and perhaps work with the design team.
Accompanies the Berlin 2012 LibreOffice Conference "Designers and Hackers: Working Together" talk.

Transcript

1. designers & hackers
2. goal: motivate you to pay attention to design when developing
3. design?
4. information architecture information design, organization, findability visual design interaction design usability + accessibility
5. “to contrive for a purpose, to project for the attainment of a particular end” - The Century Dictionary, 1911
6. osborn-parnes creative problem solving process
7. explore the challenge DEFINE THE GOAL GATHER DATA DEFINE THE SCOPE
8. generate ideas
9. prepare for action FIND AN OPTIMAL SOLUTION PREPARE TO IMPLEMENT IT
10. by Mozilla (w/ Alex Faaborg), based on work by Donald Norman, Jakob Nielsen, & Alan Cooper principles
11. SPEEDY
12. fitts's law + log 2 (1+ / ) TIME FOR MOVEMENT = DEVICE SPEED DEVICE LAG DISTANCE TARGET WIDTH ALONG AXIS OF MOTION
13. ux-visual-hierarchy
16. hick's law ∑ log 2 (1/ +1) TIME TO CHOOSE = i=1 n PROBABILITY OF CHOICE i PROBABILITY OF CHOICE i MENTAL PROCESS SPEED
17. ux-minimalism
21. ux-efficiency
24. ux-interruption
28. ux-consistency
31. SELF-EXPLANATORY
32. ux-affordance
35. ux-natural-mapping
39. ux-feedback
42. ux-discovery
46. ux-jargon
48. ERRORPROOF
49. ux-undo
50. ux-error-recovery
53. ux-error-prevention
55. ux-mode-error
60. ux-implementation-level have a good conceptual model
61. "A good conceptual model allows us to predict the effects of our actions. Without a good model we operate by rote, blindly; we do operations as we were told to do them; we can’t fully appreciate why, what effects to expect, or what to do if things go wrong.“ – Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
64. ux-control
65. ux-tone
66. what we do
67. analyses whiteboards playgrounds user research
73. find us or join us
74. Design LibreOffice Design libreoffice-ux-advise @lists.freedesktop.org #libreoffice-design Saturday, 16:00 UTC WIKI GOOGLE+ E-MAIL FREENODE
75. libreoffice-ux-advise @lists.freedesktop.org
77. DESIGNERS <=> HACKERS