Design Process

The process involves the creation of specifications, analysis, mockups, partial prototypes and even final versions of the proposals made. The aim of these proposals are to improve XWiki's UI look&feel, usability and interaction.

• Design improvements/development are made according to the current XWiki Enterprise Roadmap

• Design discussions are made on IRC or on the mailing lists
  • design discussions on mailing lists have [Proposal] in the subject field 
  • design discussions on mailing lists are usually sent both to (users AT xwiki.org) and (devs AT xwiki.org), depends on what kind of feedback is requested
  • if you are not following the mailing lists, you can browse for the proposal mails on XWiki's Markmail mailing list archives (example: [Proposal] Rights Management UI)
  • there are also archives for IRC discussions

• Design proposal deliverables are located in several places:
  • use cases/requirements are located on Design space (look for investigation tag)
  • mockups/prototypes are located on incubator's Improvements space

Issues Keywords

You can contribute and help us report usability problems within XWiki. There are several JIRA keywords that can used to highlight an usability issue:

• ux - is the user not having a great/delightful experience using the product?
• usability - does the user have problems accomplishing his task? 
• consistency - are elements that define/break the interface consistency?
• standard - are elements that define/break the interface standard?
• accessibility  - are there accessibility problems users are facing while using the product?

Voted Standards

• Vertical Forms Layout
• Inline Forms Layout

UX Pages

• Design

  • Personas: 6 types of XWiki Users
  • Default Wiki Improvements
  • Easy XWiki
  • GenericMacrosforApplications
  • Improve XWiki User Experience
  • Personas: by Thibaut Deveraux
• UserExperience

  • XWiki's User Experience