Kicking the tires on the UX toolkit

[Sean Keesler]

Guys...this is a HUGE opportunity to make Assignments "Goal Aware" in a very
"Fluid" way. What are the prospects of "baking that in" to the design of the
new tool?


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Sean Keesler
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On 12/4/07 10:31 AM, "Mara Hancock" <mara at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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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