UX meeting 20180920

Logistics

Time

16:00-16:30 UTC

Attending

@ninavizz, Anxhelo, Saptak. Huertanix & Eloquence, following along and contributing via Gitter #HotelWifiWinning

Place

https://meet.jit.si/QuickWizardsDanceHigh

Agenda

What should we discuss?

• Styleguide: general progress, tone-of-voice stuff
• What is the best process to collect and share user feedback from the FPF training team's SecureDrop trainings with for-reals SecureDrop users?

Notes

• #OhInterwebs
  • Hotel wifi was terrible, so David and Erik were on intermittently at the beginning then watched/followed via Erik's phone and contributed in Gitter
  • Nina had connectivity issues, so was a few mins late and had to rejoin mid-meeting
• Anxhelo presents updates to Ura Design's SecureDrop Styleguide!
  • Reiteration of and consensus, that goal of styleguide is documenting aspirational design things—not forensic things we all agree are stale or are in need of change.
  • Left sub-nav, new; tons of new content!
  • Reviewing Components page
    • Nina: Buttons all appear to only be from website. Could we get examples of primary, secondary, and table/list-item buttons for the webapps?
    • Buttons w/ and w/o far left icons
    • Would be helpful to present an inventory page of all buttons and to decide which should have icons—what those icons should be—and which should not have icons. Seems to be a bit of overload today, with icons on all buttons in the app, and not all icons making total sense or adding much value.
      • Nina (afternote): I can provide Ura a list of all existing buttons from recent content/screen inventory, if that could help?
    • Saptak: Could we get code snippets for CSS, etc., also shared as codeblocks in the Styleguide?
  • Reviewing updated Voice/Tone page
    • Nina: An introduction that presents to contributors who our users are, should be included. As with all text, it should be prioritize brevity and clarity.
      • (afternote): User profiles (as precursor to proper personas) have yet to be done, and are mid-process. Nina will email things to Ura, once they're more together; eta, not for another week or two. Nina' waiting to meet with Bernard, Harlo, and David, to tighten these up.
    • Nina: Should be edited to pare-down volume of text to read more quickly
    • Nina: Would be nice to add a do and don't section, as Google does in their Material Styleguide
      • (afterthought): Would be nice to also include the "Write simply and directly" bit from the aforelinked styleguide.
      • For this, would be great to make updated text recommendations for Journalist or Admin web interface, and to reverse-engineer some don't examples from text in the Source interface that's been carefully developed.
      • Nina is already doing a content audit, FYI.
      • Nina also flagged need to reconcile all content inconsistencies between Journalist/Admin Web UIs and the new Workstation UX, before January/February pilot begins, as separate but possibly related thing.
• Research things David had hoped to present, punted to next week, via #OhInterwebs issues