UX help for inkscape - project ideas?
Hi everyone,
I've recently become involved in an opportunity to work with a graduate level college class on a semester-long project potentially on a regular basis starting this fall. The class is on information science and the students have skills in UX as well as info processing such as machine learning. The projects have a scope of 15 weeks, and involve 2-3 grad students working roughly 9 hours/week and presenting them at the end of the class
I am putting together a list of potential project abstracts for the professor running the class and thought it might be neat to include an Inkscape potential project idea. I was wondering if there are any specific projects within Inkscape that might be good for this kind of project? I would be willing to serve as the mentor / liaision for the students.
One idea that came to mind was perhaps the students could look into the new alternative glyphs work Tav did (as he mentioned, "The GUI leaves a bit to be desired"), come up with some UI mockups / proposals, maybe do some usability testing on prototypes, and present their recommendations to you guys at the end?
What do you think?
Cheers, ~m
On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 09:41 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've recently become involved in an opportunity to work with a graduate level college class on a semester-long project potentially on a regular basis starting this fall. The class is on information science and the students have skills in UX as well as info processing such as machine learning. The projects have a scope of 15 weeks, and involve 2-3 grad students working roughly 9 hours/week and presenting them at the end of the class
I am putting together a list of potential project abstracts for the professor running the class and thought it might be neat to include an Inkscape potential project idea. I was wondering if there are any specific projects within Inkscape that might be good for this kind of project? I would be willing to serve as the mentor / liaision for the students.
One idea that came to mind was perhaps the students could look into the new alternative glyphs work Tav did (as he mentioned, "The GUI leaves a bit to be desired"), come up with some UI mockups / proposals, maybe do some usability testing on prototypes, and present their recommendations to you guys at the end?
What do you think?
Excellent idea!
BTW, the Spray tool was a class project.
Tav
Cheers, ~m
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Hi Máirín,
This sounds exciting. Thanks for thinking of the project.
My own suggestions would be:
a) The XML editor user interface. There are a bunch of UX attempts inside browsers and others which could be drawn upon to figure out a way to make inkscape's cramped attribute editing, much much better.
b) The document properties dialog. It contains a LOT of settings and is important for a number of functions of document management. There's some work done already on trying to work the interface into a better design, but also figuring out what functions should be moved out and into inkscape proper might be useful.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 09:41 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've recently become involved in an opportunity to work with a graduate level college class on a semester-long project potentially on a regular basis starting this fall. The class is on information science and the students have skills in UX as well as info processing such as machine learning. The projects have a scope of 15 weeks, and involve 2-3 grad students working roughly 9 hours/week and presenting them at the end of the class
I am putting together a list of potential project abstracts for the professor running the class and thought it might be neat to include an Inkscape potential project idea. I was wondering if there are any specific projects within Inkscape that might be good for this kind of project? I would be willing to serve as the mentor / liaision for the students.
One idea that came to mind was perhaps the students could look into the new alternative glyphs work Tav did (as he mentioned, "The GUI leaves a bit to be desired"), come up with some UI mockups / proposals, maybe do some usability testing on prototypes, and present their recommendations to you guys at the end?
What do you think?
Cheers, ~m
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That sounds awesome! The alternate glyph stuff is definitely the area I would have suggested myself.
Just to throw out there for reference, here's a link discussing some concepts on dialog-based UI possibilities: https://klim.co.nz/blog/towards-an-ideal-opentype-user-interface/
And a video reference for how Corel Draw handles some text stuff on-canvas (which I'm personally fond of): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKZa1D1xQw and for a font example with many more alternates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVsufJjons (I would be interested on your thoughts on this approach as someone who works on UX)
Cheers, Josh
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@...43...> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've recently become involved in an opportunity to work with a graduate level college class on a semester-long project potentially on a regular basis starting this fall. The class is on information science and the students have skills in UX as well as info processing such as machine learning. The projects have a scope of 15 weeks, and involve 2-3 grad students working roughly 9 hours/week and presenting them at the end of the class
I am putting together a list of potential project abstracts for the professor running the class and thought it might be neat to include an Inkscape potential project idea. I was wondering if there are any specific projects within Inkscape that might be good for this kind of project? I would be willing to serve as the mentor / liaision for the students.
One idea that came to mind was perhaps the students could look into the new alternative glyphs work Tav did (as he mentioned, "The GUI leaves a bit to be desired"), come up with some UI mockups / proposals, maybe do some usability testing on prototypes, and present their recommendations to you guys at the end?
What do you think?
Cheers, ~m
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