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The Fluid User Experience Toolkit provides resources, tools, and documentation to help make user interface design and implementation easier. The toolkit includes personas and scenarios for common use cases within higher education, user interface design patterns, testing protocols, and accessibility guidelines intended to simplify the design process.
UX Plans and PlanningUser ResearchPersonasPersonas are a way to model users' goals based on user and domain research. Along with guiding the design, they are a means of communicating what is being learned with the larger community . Personas are detailed descriptions of archetypical people constructed out of well-understood, highly specific patterns of data about real people. The goal of user profiling, of creating personas, is to make user-centered design possible.Contextual InquiryContextual inquiry is a cross between interviews and observation and combines the strengths of both. In a contextual inquiry, the interviewer goes to the user and interviews them where they do their work -- sometimes referred to as "in the wild." The idea is to interview users in the context of their work, while they are performing their tasks, asking them questions about what they are doing and why (when necessary) along the way.Content Management ResearchWe are iteratively engaged in user research to understand how users think about and manage their content around teaching, learning and research. This work ties into the UX Walkthroughs, which help us identify existing "pain points." Some of these will likely be well understood (and solution components can begin to be developed), but others will require more in depth understanding of why, what and how users need to work with content. This research can help us with that understanding.Evaluation and AssessmentUX WalkthroughsOne of the first design activities we are working on in the Fluid project is to identify current user "pain points" by performing heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthroughs of uPortal, Sakai and Moodle. UX Walkthrough Working GroupsUser experience walkthrough working groups have been formed around the central Fluid projects:
UX Walkthrough ResultsYou can find links to the results of all UX Walkthroughs on this page. This includes the Pre-Summit and Post-Summit Walkthrough results.Pain Points & Problem SpacesThis page serves as a collection point for identifiable generic recurring user-problematics. User testing and walkthroughs are used to reveal pain points that are synthesized into problem spaces. Component ideas are subsequently teased from the problem spaces.User TestingUser testing tests the usability of a component by putting it in front of several users individually to see if they can use the component successfully.Interaction DesignDesign PatternsAccording to architect Christopher Alexander, the "father of the Pattern Language movement in computer science," a pattern is "a proven solution to a common problem in a specified context." Patterns can be expressed hierarchically, with each level representing a different level of granularity, and there may be many different ways to (physically) implement each pattern. Each pattern is a three-part rule, which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution.ComponentsThe Fluid component library is a growing collection of reusable, rich, and accessible user interface components that can be used across web applications. Over time, the component library will serve as a trusted source of reliable, inclusive, and easy to use interfaces that can be expanded and contributed to by all.Comparative & Competitive AnalysisA comparative or competitive analysis is the process of analyzing products which are comparable, or compete with, the product you are designing in order to generate ideas.AccessibilityVisual DesignFluid BrandDownload marketing and branding collateral for Fluid: logos for print and web, power point templates, Fluid style guide and more.CommunitiesInternet2 and Identity Management |
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Accessibility Transformation Brainstorming
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Content Management Research
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Design Meetings
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Fluid UCamps - Planning
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Fluid Wiki Templates
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Internet2 Identity Management UX Discussions
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Kuali Student User Interface Design Notes
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Pain Points & Problem Spaces
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Summit UX Summary
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Tagging
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Two Column Template
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U-Camp Planning - JA-Sig UnConference
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User Experience Frankenstein
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User Interface Adaptation and User Preferences
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User Modeling - How To Guide
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UX Activity Planning
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UX Toolkit
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