Kicking the tires on the UX toolkit

[Mara Hancock]

Clay -- Do you have a designer on the project or do we need to talk  
about finding UI support?


On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Clay Fenlason wrote:

> An inter-institutional team is coming together to rewrite the
> Assignments tool in Sakai, a team without any allocated design
> resource, and so I've been actively reviewing the UX toolkit from the
> perspective of those needs.
>
> There are design patterns and components we might wish were already in
> a Fluid release, of course, but that's not the point I'm trying to
> make.  It seems very likely that our Assignments work presents an
> opportunity to create reusable chunks of UI, and it would really be
> best for everyone if we tried to create them as Fluid components (as
> opposed to merely trying to develop the UI portions in such a
> commonsensical way that someone might review and adapt them).
>
> So what we're missing is documentation on how to develop a Fluid
> component.  I think we'd like to contribute, fulfilling the ideal of
> meeting local needs in a communally beneficent way, but we need to
> better understand the standards, packaging, or what have you, which
> would allow Fluid to accept and incorporate our contribution.
>
> ~Clay
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