[TYPO3-hci] Creating a new interface - real life meeting

Patrick Broens patrick at patrickbroens.nl
Wed Nov 8 21:51:10 CET 2006


Hi all,

Count me in as well, that makes two guys from the Netherlands. :-)

Hamburg is fine, Düsseldorf even better.

Cheers,

Patrick

ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote:
> JoH asenau wrote:
>> Hi HCI folks.
>>
>> Since the experience from the last years shows that a simple list or wiki is
>> not the best solution when it comes to collaboration I would like to have
>> something like an HCI camp during the next two months.
>>
>> We could meet for a weekend or so at a place that is within a few hours of
>> travelling for each of the participants. First day would be some
>> brainstorming about basic concepts of a new interface and during the other
>> day(s) we could create screenshots and other stuff to show the people and
>> especially the coders, what it's all about.
>>
>> So the participants of this camp don't necessarily have to be coders, since
>> the coding will happen later on. But it would be nice to have some coders
>> there or at least some of them agreeing to realise the concept we elaborate
>> during this camp. After all it wouldn't make sense to design something that
>> will never get real because we are missing the coders with the appropriate
>> skills.
>>
>> As far as I can see there are guys from Austria, Denmark, Finland, UK and
>> Germany. (Correct me if I forgot somebody ...)
>> So Hamburg could be a good place for this camp. Even Düsseldorf could be
>> acceptable - but that would be unfair since I am living there ;-)
>> Other suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Do you think it's worth an investment of some days and a few bucks for
>> travelling and accomodation?
>>
>> Let me know ...
> 
> Hi Joey,
> 
> thNx for your suggestion. Although I have not reacted to anything on the
> list I would really be interested to participate. Especially Oliviers
> idea to get these usability coolgrey guys in is cool. And we can teach
> them to get usablity accessible as well ;-) I still have a huge report
> from a dutch userinterface agency about interface changes for the
> backend in dutch ofcourse :-(
> 
> Anyway.... count me in!!
> 
> gRTz
> 
> ben



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