Proposed design svn structure

[James William Yoon]

Thanks for the comments, Leah!

Jess is right about keeping Design out of the Engage space. To provide
additional reasoning: I think it's best we isolate the design files
from the code. The expectation right now when one checks out /fluid in
svn is that they're getting all the code-related things for Fluid
(scripts, markup, style sheets, etc.). There are fairly strict
conventions governing the file/folder names, structure, and what
belongs and doesn't belong in there. Mixing in our design files would
probably add confusion.

In terms of papers and presentations, there certainly is a space in
the wiki for that, but I think, despite the redundancy, that there's
value in putting them into the repository as well (having a
consolidated area where all our design-related files live is part of
the what the repository was all about!). Let's talk more about that
this afternoon at the design meeting.

(side note: Vicki and I discussed whether we could put design and
museum papers generally related to our project in the repository--I
was all for the idea of having a convenient library of papers in the
repository, until I realized we'd probably be breaking copyright laws)

Cheers,
James

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jess Mitchell <jess at jessmitchell.com> wrote:
> Design should live outside of Engage since we have plenty of design work for
> other projects.  If we keep it Design > Engage, that allows us to have
> Design > Other Project in the future.  We can easily grow with that.
> Powerpoints and papers should go into the wiki on the Presentation page.  It
> might be useful for us to talk about what kinds of materials we expect to
> put in SVN versus the wiki in our conversation this afternoon.
> J
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> On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Leah Maestri wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> This looks really good. The only question I have is for the first 4
> directories. It goes svn/, then design/, then engage/... etc. Is the reason
> for why design/ lives outside of engage/ because it's more related to the
> entire fluid project and not specific to engage/? I guess in my mind all the
> design work that we're doing is within engage/. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> What about materials from conferences (i.e: powerpoints, papers, etc.) would
> that go under one of the following?
>
> Great stuff!
> Lee
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James William Yoon <james.yoon at utoronto.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all (but especially designers, since this affects you most!),
>>
>> Vicki and I spent the afternoon thinking about the sorts of files we
>> have as FE designers (wireframes, stencils, pixel-perfect mockups,
>> fonts, academic literature on UX/IxD and museum stuff, museum maps,
>> testing protocols, ethics and consent forms, the journey frameworks
>> and ontology, etc.), and then hacked away at the structure of our
>> design svn.
>>
>> Here's what we're proposing:
>>
>> /svn   (the root)
>>      /design   (where the designers live)
>>            /engage   (where Fluid Engage lives)
>>                  /admin   (general administrative files--project
>> description, contact info, etc.)
>>                  /mobile   (mobile micro-project)
>>                        /wireframes
>>                        /high-fidelity-mockups
>>                        /interaction-flow-diagrams
>>                        /stencils   (mobile wireframes toolkit)
>>                        /mobile-design-testing-platform
>>                  /kiosk   (kiosk micro-project)
>>                        /wireframes
>>                        /high-fidelity-mockups
>>                        /stencils   (kiosk wireframes toolkit)
>>                  /resources   (general designer toolkit and other
>> Engage-specific resources)
>>                        /museum-maps
>>                              /detroit-institute-of-arts
>>                              /mccord-museum
>>                              /museum-of-the-moving-image
>>                        /stencils
>>                        /fonts
>>                  /process    (design process stuff, like the Journey
>> Frameworks and Ontology)
>>                        /journey-frameworks
>>                        /ontology
>>                  /etc   (everything else)
>>            /decapod   (where Fluid Decapod lives, if they so desired)
>>                  ...
>>            /collection-space   (where CSpace lives, if they so desired)
>>                  ...
>>
>> Your thoughts, questions, and suggestions would be very helpful. In
>> particular, ask yourselves whether you have (or will have) files that
>> don't fit under this structure, and, more importantly, whether this
>> structure makes sense to you.
>>
>> Developers, you all have much more experience than us in svn--does the
>> structure make sense? Any potential svn snafus we should be aware of?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
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