UX Activities (groups)

We are capturing the UX activities and timelines for this project here. 

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Requirements Gathering & Problem Space Definition

Finalizing scope and requirements for phase 1

Design

Activity

Deliverable

Dependency

Involved

Champion

Completed

UX Iteration 1 - Mon. 7/20 - Fri. 8/7

Review Fluid Personas

 

 

Team

N/A

N/A

Agree on set of personas (primary & secondary)

Personas on group space?

Review personas

Team

Daphne

Decision:  No primary & secondary personas.  Fluid personas are fodder into use cases & scenarios.

Identify & capture use cases & Scenarios from other existing documentation (where not already on matrix):  Federated Authorization Use Cases

Iterate on use case matrix

 

 

Keli

Complete

Identify & capture use cases & Scenarios from other existing documentation (where not already on matrix) - Fluid Personas

Iterate on use case matrix 

 

 

Daphne

Complete

Identify & capture use cases & scenarios from other existing documentation (where not already on matrix) - CARET's social networking research

Iterate on use case matrix  

 

 

 

Won't complete

Identify & capture use cases & scenarios from other existing documentation (where not already on matrix) - Course management project (from several years ago)

Iterate on use case matrix 

 

 

Daphne

Complete

Write context scenarios (ongoing iterative)

Context scenarios

 

Team

 

Complete

Flesh out group interaction uses cases for the matrix

Iterate on use case matrix

 

Team to work on 7/23 Berkeley meeting

Daphne

7/30/09

Flesh out group type spreadsheet 

Completed spreadsheet 


Team

 

in progress

Mental Model of GroupsMental Model of GroupsMental Model Exercise 

List of use expectations based on existing mental models

 

Team to work on 7/23 Berkeley meeting

Daphne

7/30/09

Develop benchmarking guidelines & list of apps

guidelines or template

 


Keli

8/6/09





 

 

UX Iteration 2 - Mon. 8/10 - Fri. 8/21



 

 

 

Prioritize use cases for phase 1

Phase 1 functional scope

 

Team

Oliver

Complete

Review Lucy's (NYC) email and documentation about Ning and make sure use cases are represented.  Also, create several scenarios based on that information.

Additions to use case matrix & new context scenarios

 

 

 

Complete

Benchmarking (facebook, linked in, delicious, doodle.com, confluence, current sakai, grouper, google groups...)

Analysis documented on confluence

 

Team

 

Complete

Get community feedback on fleshed out use case matrix & group type spreadsheet

 

Use case matrix & group type spreadsheet

Community

Daphne

 

Write context scenarios (ongoing)

Context scenarios

 

 

 

Ongoing

Recruit scenarios/use cases from community  


Use case matrix & some fleshed out scenarios


Daphne

Ongoing

Choose initial contexts & scenarios to focus on within phase 1

 

 

Team

Daphne

Complete

Identify & capture related design patterns (from:  Weile, yahoo, tidwell)

 

 

Team

 

 

UX Iteration 3 - Mon. 8/24 - Fri. 9/4


 

 

 

 

Design studio (entire team works through designs over a couple days)

Create Wireframes

Wireframes

 

Team

Daphne

Low fidelity storyboards for primary scenerios

Wireframes that tell a story with the scenarios

Context scenarios

 

 

Complete

 

 

 

 

 

 

UX Iteration 4 - Mon. 9/7 - Fri. 9/18


 

 

 

 

User testing (paper) 

Testing results 

 

 

 

 

Iterate on designs based on paper testing results 

Updated wireframes  

 

 

 

 

Build Prototype (phase 1)

Working prototype

 

Eli

Eli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UX Iteration 5 - Mon. 9/21 - Fri. 10/2

 

 

 

 

 

Visual design

Wireframes become mockups

 

 

 

 

Mock-ups for all screens (phase 1)  

Mock-ups

 

 

 

 

Build Prototype (phase 1)

Working prototype 

 

Eli 

Eli 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UX Iteration 6 - Mon. 9/28 - Fri. 10/9


 

 

 

 

 

Build prototype cont'd (phase 1)

 

 

Eli

Ei

 

Identify & develop design patterns for groups 

Design Patterns (i.e. search for people, select people, create group, search for groups...)  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

UX Iteration 7 - Mon. 10/12 - Fri. 10/23

 

 

 

 

 

User testing (prototype)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UX Iteration 8 - Mon. 10/26 - Fri. 11/06

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iterate on designs based on prototype testing results