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Admittedly, design is a tricky thing to get a handle on. We all Most of us know good design when we see it, but wouldn't it be nice to take our understanding a little furtherhow does that help when it comes to improving bad design?
The UX Scorecard aims to do just that. It's a measuring stick that we can 'll use to gage the "qualitygoodness" or "badness" of Sakai's design. We'll then use that knowledge to make measurable and meaningful changes.
How does it work?
This image is just a sample of what the UX Scorecard will look like.
Before embarking on any *new design project, UX experts will review the previous design using the scorecard as both a guide and documentation template. The result will produce a clean and consolidated report.
Each design project (for example: re-designing the schedule tool) will have a confluence page containing a scorecard. The scorecard will go back as far as three design versions and display a percentage difference column to help with horizontal analysis.
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Visual design is more than skin deep. What we'll be looking for is symmetry, good use of contrast, scale, proportion, and various other attributes that make each screen easier to visually comprehend.
E. Compliant Compliance with Trends & Standards
In this section, the scorecard will try to tackle good front-end coding principles, compliance with accessibility standards, adherence to style guides, as well as questions related to relevance (for example: Is Sakai's "user experience" what most user's expect given todays technology and design standards?).
For more information on accessibility analysis, take a look at what ~melledge Former user (Deleted) put together: Sakai Test Protocol--Firefox Accessibility Extension and WAVE 3.5 Combined. This, along with and other Fluid inspired protocols, will be heavily relied on to make sure this scorecard give gives both you (the stakeholder) and us (the designers) the most reliable information on the status of Sakai's design quality. Because let's face it, it's hard to fix something if you don't know what's broken.