Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
So today we had a pretty successful brainstorm about enabling new contributors in Fedora! Thank you to everyone who responded my call for volunteers yesterday – we were at max capacity within an hour or two of the post! 🙂 It just goes to show this is a topic a lot of folks are passionate …
Fedora Design Team Meeting 24 March 2015 Meetbot Minutes Raw log Completed Tickets Ticket 361: Fedora Reflective Bracelet This ticket involved a simple design for a reflective bracelet for bike riders to help them be more visible at night. The imprint area was quite small and the ink only one color, so this was fairly …
You (probably don’t, but) may remember an idea I posted about a while back when we were just starting to plan out how to reconfigure Fedora’s websites for Fedora.next. I called the idea “Fedora Hubs.” Some Backstory The point behind the idea was to provide a space specifically for Fedora contributors that was separate from …
One of the things the Fedora Design Team decided to do following the Design Team Fedora Activity Day(s) we had back in January was to meet more regularly. We’ve started fortnightly meetings; we just had our second one. During the FAD, we figured out a basic process for handling incoming design team tickets and Chris …
Starting this Friday through the weekend, we’re having the very first Fedora Design Team FAD here at Red Hat’s Boston-area office. A number of design team members are going to come together for two and a half days and plan the basic roadmap for the design team over the next year or two, as well …
This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series; this post builds on materials featured in an earlier post called DevAssistant Heuristic Review Part 1: Use Case Walkthroughs. In this part of the DevAssistant heuristic review, we’ll walk through an itemized list of the issues uncovered by the use case-based walkthrough we did in part …
You might be asking yourself, “What the heck is a heuristic review?” It’s just a fancy term; I learned it from reading Jakob Nielsen‘s writings. It’s a simple process of walking through a user interface (or product, or whatever,) and comparing how it works to a set of general principles of good design, AKA ‘heuristics.’ …
I wrote an article walking through 5 UX Tips for Developers over at the Red Hat Developer blog. They are just some general suggestions for improving applications that are geared towards developers without training in UX. If this sounds like something that might be useful to you, feel free to take a look: 5 UX …
I’ve posted today (Thursday’s) guide to Flock talks over on Fedora Magazine: Guide to Attending Flock Virtually: Day 2 The guide to days 3 and 4 will follow, of course. Enjoy!
Flock, the Fedora Contributor Conference, starts tomorrow morning in Prague, the Czech Republic, and you can attend – no matter where in the world you are. (Although admittedly, depending on where you are, you may need to give up on some sleep if you intend to attend live 😉 ) Here’s a quick schedule of …