During this spring I have taken part in the following:
Grieved over what Navigation 2.0 does to the Quiz editing UI I designed and usability tested in summer 2008 (discussion, tracker item), throwing away much of the tested design without testing the changes (update, later the same day: this is still being discussed; see the tracker item). How I wish I could be there when core moodlers design and decide about big UI-related changes like this Navigation 2.0! (spec for the Quiz change)
- Worked with Eloy, Sam and others to get Moodle’s first proper Wizard in. Yay! Sam did a great job of reacting to my feedback quite late in the process, though apparently he did not know of the specifications I had made for the wizard last autumn.
- Discussed Database module exporting UI
- Discussed Forum search UI with Anthony
- Commented on The database module’s UI on Anthony’s request – hope to have a chance to do some research and help in redesigning the Database module UI at some point
- Added MediaWiki categories to Moodle UI guidelines for faster browsing, cleaned up the guidelines so unfinished things are less in the way of usage
- In the Moodle sprint, took a look at the toolbar of the rich text editor; reviewed all the comments the question had received since last summer, and created a new patch. Petr told me it is okay to assign the bug to him, as he will be working on the editor before Moodle 2.0 release.
- Commented on issues, such as MDL-6820 MDL-20461, found on the CANnect Accessibility report by Randall Hansen (MDL-20409)
- Commented on the new Moodle 2.0 Dock navigation’s interactive behaviours: MDL-21529
Also, jotted some usability related bugs down:
Part II to What is a course & the tools for having a great one, with exciting new UI design for an old challenge is coming out at the beginning of June as soon as I can find any free time. Stay tuned!