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[ui-best-practices-working-group] UI Best Practices Working Group Proposal to the Planning Council (Draft)

Here is a draft of the proposal to the planning council.  Comments welcome.

 

 

The Eclipse User Interface Best Practices Working Group wishes to make a proposal to the Eclipse Planning Council to encourage the participation of the project groups in the activities of the working group.  We believe this will improve the usability and user experience in and across the projects making up the simultaneous release.

 

Background: The EMO was instructed by the Board to facilitate the creation of a working group to focus on usability and UI in Eclipse.  This has happened and the User Interface Best Practices Working Group has the charter to help improve the usability across the Eclipse projects that are part of the simultaneous release effort. In addition to updating the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines, the group will also participate in and facilitate the following activities to improve the user interface experience:

 

  • Trigger usability post-mortems to be performed by the different projects
  • Conduct regular "show and tells" with UI leads from the projects to shed spotlight on problem areas and promote good ideas as best practices
  • Do an end of release UI review and come up with a cross-project list of polish items

 

The wiki for the working group can be found at: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User_Interface_Best_Practices_Working_Group

 

And a detailed description of the activities can be found at:

 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User_Interface_Best_Practices_Working_Group_Charter_Related_Activities

 

Proposal: The User Interface Best Practices Working Group wishes to propose the following items:

 

  • The group requests that the Planning Council makes the output of the usability post-mortems a requirement for participation in the simultaneous release.  Specifically, that the projects shall hold usability post-mortems and a prioritized list of usability issues to be addressed shall be posted on the project wiki.
  • The group requests that the Planning Council recommends that the projects participate in UI show and tells with the goal of sharing information on UI best practices and challenges.
  • The group requests that the Planning Council makes the output of the UI Polish Review a part of the release exit criteria. Specifically, that the projects shall hold UI Polish Reviews and a final fix list shall be posted on the project wiki.

 

We thank your consideration of this matter.

 

 

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