This page contains all of the important details for the UX Design Guidelines for Apps Developers project.

Elevator Pitch

The "UX Design Guidelines for Apps Developers" project seeks to develop a set of design patterns and best practices for good and consistent User Experience design for Open Web Apps.

The project will proceed in phases: design patterns, responsive design, event substitution (see below).

Overview

• Code name: apps-design
• Prod URL: TBD
• Dev URL: http://mozilla.github.com/apps-design/
• Stage URL: TBD
• Code Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/apps-design
• L10N Repo: n/a
• Code: HTML/CSS/JS
• Product Owner: Daniel Buchner
• UX Design Intern: Caroline Wong
• UX Mentor: Maria Sandberg
• Web Developer: Jen Fong
• IRC Channel: #devecosystem on irc.mozilla.org

Project Status

• Stage 1: Design Patterns

Development Phases

• Stage 1: Develop a set of building blocks for Open Web Apps and connect each of them with one or more x-tags facilitating the use of each pattern.

• Stage 2: Responsive design patterns and x-tags/CSS examples facilitating the use of these patterns.

• Stage 3 (as time permits): Event Substitution (and different event types depending on device) best practices.

• Ongoing: General human interface/ usability guideline + additional resources

Timelines

• Target timeline: Q3/2012
• Stages 1 to be completed from UX perspective by End of July
• Stage 2 (&3 as time permits) to be completed from UX perspective by End of August.
• Results to be published in a (TBD) production location (possibly: Apps Developers landing page) by end of Q3.

Meetings

• Weekly, Wednesdays 11:00am Pacific, room MTV-2C (CYA)
• Vidyo/dial-in as needed

Specs / Useful links

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Bugs

• Bugs are tracked as github issues on the apps-design project.