Design Handbook Review -- we need your help!

[Daphne Ogle]

Hi there,

At the design meeting today we decided to split up sections of the  
Handbook for review.    A lot of work has been done of late and we'd  
like to see more but need to make sure we are working on this in the  
context of other work.  As you all know, working on the wiki can  
easily become a black hole.

We started volunteering for sections but ran out of time.  Allison and  
I volunteered to go through the sections and take a stab at assigning.

Some goals/tips to keep in mind as you review:
-  The audience of the Handbook are designer, developers, (a combo of  
the two), project managers, etc. and they are not necessarily  
intimately knowledgeable about Fluid
-  This pass is focused on the 1.0 release.  We will continue to  
iterate on the Handbook post 1.0.  This is meant to be a little deeper  
than a surface review but leave deeper restructuring and heavy  
rewriting of content to later iterations.  Jiras should be created for  
these deeper changes needed that you uncover.  Be sure to assign them  
to the Design Handbook component in jira so we can run a filter on it  
later.
-  Email page authors if you have questions about relevancy or  
location of the page for guidance
-  Design Handbook users should NOT have to have knowledge of Fluid to  
understand the handbook
-  Some particularly heavy sections can be overwhelming.  If you need  
to, be sure to grab someone else to puzzle through.
-  Keep in mind the distinction between the Design handbook and the  
User Experience section (Fluid UX Deliverables)
-  User the tree view to help see all pages within a section

Potential assignees for the main headings in Handbook (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Design+Handbook 
):

Accessibility Resources - Erin
User Testing - Erin
Design & Development Process - Daphne
Agile planning... - Daphne
Personas - Daphne
UX Walkthroughs - Jess/Paul
Cognitive Walkthrough - Jess/Paul
Heuristic Evaluation - Jess/Paul
Comparative & Competitive Analysis - Gary
UX Resources - Gary
Contextual Inquiry - Allison
User Modeling - Allison
UCD Best Practices - Allison/Daphne
Design Patterns - Jonathon

James - to do a review of the entirety after we make an initial first  
pass?

Gary:  We weren't sure if you have any time for this work so we  
assigned you a couple of the smaller sections.  If you'd like more or  
less just speak up.  There are for sure a few people that are likely  
overloaded.

Thanks!  If there are any questions/concerns, let's discuss.

-Daphne & Allison

Daphne Ogle
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu
cell (510)847-0308