I think it might make sense to talk about how to come to design decisions between us many “armchair designers”. I think we should explain the rational behind our proposals more thoroughly including usability and accessibility considerations, links to design articles or popular example implementations that show the benefit of the design, and maybe an idea on how the design will develop/integrate with the long term design vision of the platform.
Other ideas are:
- Establishing a OGS design team to enable a more focused discussion and effort
- Enabling the use of polls in the app instead of in the forum to get more representative feedback
I’ve been thinking about the recent comments made about the UI/UX… would it be appropriate for me to essentially go through OGS, and write up a list of suggestions/ ideas for smaller alterations that could be made… with the understanding that these suggestions aren’t a priority when put next to developmental issues that take precedence.
One of us armchair designers has furthermore sneaked into the dev chat to circumvent the public forum discussion and instill his design bias directly to the developers. I personally do not approve of this approach, and think we should find another way to make progress regarding the UI/UX design.