[Design Patterns] OSDPL Questions of the day - Goal & Audiences

[Allison Bloodworth]

Hi folks,

A couple folks missed the question of the day I sent out Sunday  
night, so I'm resending it along with the second question of the day  
for the Open Source Design Pattern Library. Please feel free to  
either respond to this email thread and/or add your answers to this  
wiki page: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/OSDPL+Discussion 
+Questions+and+Answers

1. At http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Design+Patterns 
+Library+Proposal, our proposed goal reads:

"The primary goal of the design pattern library will be to introduce  
design patterns as a way to design usable, high-quality user  
interfaces in specific contexts ("a proven solution to a common  
problem in a specified context"). The library will have a practical  
focus, intended mostly as a tool for junior/new designers as well as  
developers. It will not focus on creating a complete pattern  
language, or describing patterns in a more academic sense."

Is this the best statement of our goal? Can we add to this and flesh  
it out more?

2. Who is the audience of the OSDPL? Are we trying to serve too many  
different audiences, and if so, should we try to pick a primary  
audience to serve? Is it possible to pick a primary audience to focus  
on where if we serve their needs, we will end up serving most of the  
needs of our other audiences? (This is a similar concept to picking a  
primary persona on whom to focus a website or application's design.  
In this situation we also try to meet the needs of secondary  
personas, but never to the detriment of the primary persona's  
experience.)

See:http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Design+Patterns+Library 
+Proposal for some initial ideas on this.

Looking forward to getting your feedback on these important issues --  
see you at our next meeting Wednesday, May 14th, 10am PDT on Fluid's  
Breeze server: http://breeze.yorku.ca/fluidwork (no login required,  
just enter as a guest and turn on your camera/microphone). Feel free  
to add additional discussion items to the agenda on this page: http:// 
wiki.fluidproject.org/x/0Ywk.

Allison

Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu




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