Add UI content guidelines to Contributor Guide¶
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+spec/ux-personas
Add OpenStack personas within the OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide under the UI guidelines section.
Problem description¶
The OpenStack UX project is interested in adding a section to the OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide that describes personas developed by the OpenStack UX project team.
Users can apply personas to development design decisions, use personas as IA resources for new and changing guide evaluating requirements, guides, and employed in possible marketing collateral.
The value of this effort is to help provide developers, designers, and reviewers with an improved awareness of OpenStack users. With this awareness, they can design and develop OpenStack with the appropriate audience goals, and resulting task flows, in mind. Personas help establish consistency across projects, increase awareness for the customer and their goals, and communicate the differences between specific customers.
Proposed change¶
In a new UX/UI section of the contributor guide, add a topic collection for personas. The personas section could be added as a peer to both the UI text guidelines (already exist) and to the (proposed) UI heuristic checklist section within the OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide.
Proposed table of contents:
UX/UI guidelines (section title updated to reflect broader scope)
- Value/Intro
- UI text guidelines (already exist)
- UI heuristic checklist (new, proposed in separate spec)
- UX personas (new, proposed by this spec)
In the personas section, the following personas will be elaborated upon.
Cloud Personas¶
The personas information will be based upon model companies and their ecosystems. They describe the cloud adoption stages and describe multiple roles defined with each company. Roles that perform similar tasks may be called something different in each company. It is also common for the same person to perform multiple roles or shared tasks. Early research shows that the role ecosystem is complex and diverse.
Contact Piet Kruithof (See Assignee(s) below) for the most recent version of the personas.
Alternatives¶
Do not add UX personas.
Add personas, but create them in a new guide for UX design tools. An email was distributed to the doc project regarding the idea of a new UX design guide to house UX-related resources and tools for a cross-project audience. These were the options discussed in the email (sent 3/7/16). Please see the docs mailing list or OpenStack email archive for more details and history.
- Option A
Create a OpenStack UX Design Guide: Tools for developers guide, under the Contributor Guides section on docs.openstack.org. The guide would house UX design materials, like engaging UX, personas, use cases, and a resources section with a heuristic checklists, etc. Basically, creating a design corner concept. Guide name is to be decided.
- Pros: A peer to other contributor guides. Creates a more prominent focus on UX/UI design in OpenStack. We could reference the guide from appropriate locations to increase visibility.
- Cons: New guide-logistics are more complicated - logistics help needed. This option takes longer to get reviews going.
- Option B
Add to the existing Doc Contributor Guide, but modify the guide’s scope.
- Pros: Existing guide-logistics easier, and content would be available to review sooner. The UI guidelines and content would be in one location. The new UI heuristic checklist links to the UI text guidelines that we recently added to the doc contributor guide.
- Cons: Not just for text guidelines anymore, so the current guide scope would expand slightly to include a section specifically on UX/UI tools for a cross-project audience.
- Option C
Add to the existing Doc Contributor Guide as-is, potentially adjust later.
- Pros: Content available for review quickly, lowest logistical impact.
- Cons: Scope could be confusing for users, adjusting later delays some work.
Implementation¶
Work Items¶
- Reach a consensus on new section location and content structure.
- Identify new topics to be created and submit content/reviews using the [blueprint ux-personas] tag.
Dependencies¶
This work is a collaboration between the UX and Doc team that requires input from both projects.
Testing¶
Testing will follow the standard documentation review process.
References¶
- Discussion can occur using any official medium including IRC in #openstack-doc, the openstack-docs mailing list with [ux-personas] in the subject.
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