UI Working Group becoming popular venue!
The UI Working Group is a forum for people to discuss Eclipse UI issues. Its available as a sounding board for UI walkthroughs, providing feedback on UI design issues, guidance on best practice approaches, issue of consistency, etc. Its members are UI expects from across the Eclipse community, so you get lots of experience at your disposal for the very low low price of, well, free!
We’ve had some great, thought provoking presentations. Some recent activity:
- Susan Franklin McCourt presented a walkthrough of some UI design issues in the new P2 UI. I know she did a lot of work preparing for it and I think that paid off in getting some good feedback and ideas.
- This last week Kaloyan Raev and Bogdan Vatkov presented on some design issues and ideas for improvement on the base Search UI. There was some great discussion and some talk of doing a community driven tweaklet to explore alternative designs. We will be having a follow up call soon to discuss specifics.
- David Carver has said that he’d like to discuss Preferences and Launching/Debugging. We will probably do these as two sessions.
- When these are all completed, I’d like to talk about consistency around indicating required fields in wizards, dialogs, and forms.
The schedule is getting busy!
This is great to see. The calls are only an hour and there’s lots of discussion, so I find these sessions work best when the presenter comes with a focused, well prepared topic. Of course “best” is a measure of what the presenter got out of it, either in new design ideas, answers to questions, or raising some issue with the hope of community engagement on the topic.
The calls are open to all Eclipse Members; anyone can join, and anyone can present.
Posted July 10th, 2008 by Kevin McGuire in category: Usability, Visual Design
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Chris Aniszczyk Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Good to see it finally getting the attention it deserves
Kim Peter Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I agree. The recent activity has been great to see! I haven’t been able to attend most of these calls recently but the one I did attend, the idea of a follow-up session was discussed where the presenter would bring back some of the ideas covered in the initial meeting to show how they played out. This is a good way to iterate and get a lot of feedback in the process. It’s a kind of same zone to incubate before sealing the implementation. I hope presenters will take advantage of this aspect of the sessions as well.
Looking forward to the next one I am able to make.