Apps/DesignGuide

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: Fred Wenzel / Caroline Wong
• 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 design patterns 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 3:30pm Pacific, room MTV-2G (GIGO)
• Vidyo/dial-in as needed

Specs / Useful links

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Bugs

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