1. Anastasia Cheetham, Software Designer, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto Whirlwind Tour of Progress to Date

2. www.fluidproject.org Fluid Project Goal –Improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus on academic software for universities –Developing a library of sharable customizable user interfaces designed to improve the user experience of web applications

3. www.fluidproject.org Participating Projects uPortal –Enterprise portal system –Aggregates personalized student information Sakai –Collaboration and learning environment –Teaching, research, and group collaboration Moodle –Learning management system –Strong focus on pedagogy Kuali Student –Upcoming, next generation student information system –Viable alternative to high-cost commercial products

4. www.fluidproject.org Activities User Experience Walkthroughs UCamps Design Patterns Component Development

5. www.fluidproject.org UX Walkthroughs Heuristic evaluations –examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics") e.g “visibility of system status” Cognitive walkthrough –Identify particular tasks –focus on how easy it is for new users to accomplish tasks with the system

6. www.fluidproject.org UX Walkthroughs uPortal Sakai Moodle

7. www.fluidproject.org UX Walkthrough Findings Pain Points –Feedback –File management –Layout –Navigation –Preferences and Permissions –Terminology –Workflow

8. www.fluidproject.org UCamps Workshops and collaborations about user experience design and accessibility UCamp here this afternoon

9. www.fluidproject.org Design Patterns A pattern is a proven solution to a common problem in a specified context Review of existing Design Pattern Libraries Development of Fluid Design Patterns –Drag and Drop

10. www.fluidproject.org Component Development Current: –Lightbox component: organize image thumbnails –Reorderer: organize anything (for example, portlets?) –NavigationTabs Next: –Reorderer in uPortal –File Uploader –Navigation Menu

11. www.fluidproject.org Demos Lightbox NavigationTabs

12. www.fluidproject.org Release: 0.1 this month www.fluidproject.org wiki.fluidproject.org

13. www.fluidproject.org