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Tracy Levesque 5:22 pm on March 8, 2015
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4.2 Nux Group Recap / Call to Action, March 3, 2015

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This week’s chat was dedicated to looking at the proposed new Welcome Screen, assigning folks to “own” one of the links, identify several things and report back next week:

  1. The importance of highlighting that flowFlow Flow is the path of screens and interactions taken to accomplish a task. It’s an experience vector. Flow is also a feeling. It’s being unselfconscious and in the zone. Flow is what happens when difficulties are removed and you are freed to pursue an activity without forming intentions. You just do it.
    Flow is the actual user experience, in many ways. If you like, you can think of flow as a really comprehensive set of user stories. When you think about user flow, you’re thinking about exactly how a user will perform the tasks allowed by your product.Flow and Context
     for new users in the Welcome Panel
  2. Once you’ve clicked through to it, what is currently good or bad, or could be improved
  3. Bonus: Whether this is a “Day 1″ link and if so, what should replace it?

Attendance at last week’s chat was sparser than usual, so we didn’t find volunteers to cover all of the Welcome Panel action links. If you’d like to volunteer to examine one of remaining the flows below, let us know in the comments.

The following people volunteered:

Settings

  • “Set your site front page” – @juliekuehl
  • “Turn comments on or off” – @suzettefranck
  • “Set your timezone and date format” – @courtneyengle
  • “Change URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org structure” – @bethsoderberg

Appearance

  • “View your site” – @liljimmi @drewapicture
  • “Change or customize your theme” – @liljimmi
  • “Find new themes” – You? Looking for a volunteer
  • “Manage your site widgets” – @ipstenu

Content

  • “Write your first post” – @DrewAPicture
  • “Add a new page” – @abuango
  • “Edit your site title and tagline” – @jenniferbourn

Reporting Back

When reporting back with your findings, it would be helpful to document the current “workflow” for whichever action link you’re examining. Identify the pain points, possibly suggest alternatives, and provide vizrecs (visual records, i.e. screenshots) of your main points.

Things to keep in mind when writing your report.

  • Is this a must-have for the Welcome Panel?
  • Describe the flow from the point of clicking the link to following through the process
  • What is good or bad with the way it currently works?
  • Bonus: Suggestions for improvement

Reports can be shared in the comments and/or presented at next week’s NUX meeting.

#4-2, #nux

Drew Jaynes 6:40 pm on March 3, 2015
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4.2 NUX Group Agenda, March 3, 2015

Here’s the agenda for today’s NUX working group chat in the #core-flow channel on Slack.

This is the fourth weekly chat for the 4.2 NUX working group. Just as a reminder, group discussions are open to anyone who would like to attend and participate. So please, join us!

Time/Date: Tuesday March 3 2015 19:00 UTC

Chat Leaders: @DrewAPicture
Topic: Welcome Panel: Narrowing Focus (continued)

  1. Last week we decided on a better list of links for three columns of the Welcome Panel: Settings, Appearance, and Content. @liljimmi was kind enough to adjust the mockups to match (see below).

    2. Welcome Screen Final from 2 24 2015 NUX meeting

  2. This week, we’ll be narrowing the focus to those individual flows. The goal would be to have at least one team member “own” each flowFlow Flow is the path of screens and interactions taken to accomplish a task. It’s an experience vector. Flow is also a feeling. It’s being unselfconscious and in the zone. Flow is what happens when difficulties are removed and you are freed to pursue an activity without forming intentions. You just do it.
    Flow is the actual user experience, in many ways. If you like, you can think of flow as a really comprehensive set of user stories. When you think about user flow, you’re thinking about exactly how a user will perform the tasks allowed by your product.Flow and Context
     and identify several things:
    • The importance of highlighting that flow for new users in the Welcome Panel
    • What is currently good or bad, or could be improved
    • Bonus: Whether this is a “Day 1” link and if so, what should replace it?
  3. Next week, group members will report back with their findings and recommendations

#4-2, #agenda, #nux

Drew Jaynes 7:40 pm on February 24, 2015
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4.2 NUX Group Agenda, February 24, 2015

Hi y’all. Yes, this is coming pretty late. What can I say? Lots to do in 4.2.

Here’s the agenda for today’s NUX working group chat in the #core-flow channel on Slack.

This is the third weekly chat for the 4.2 NUX working group. Just as a reminder, group discussions are open to anyone who would like to attend and participate. Come and join us!

Time/Date: Tuesday February 24 2015 19:00 UTC

Chat Leaders: @mor10 / @DrewAPicture
Topic: Welcome Panel (continued)

  • Last week we discussed ways to improve and refine the contents of the Welcome Panel experience. This week we’ll go over some of the mockups @liljimmi so kindly put together (see below)
  • Discussion Points:
    1. Rehash: What should be “initial” vs “subsequent” content?
    2. Finalize list and order for panel
    3. Should buttons be triggers or links to Settings/CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. pages?
    4. Identify items that could benefit from walkthrough-workflows at a future date
  • Recommendations: – Next steps

Mockups following last week’s chat (thank you @liljimmi!):

#4-2, #agenda, #nux

Drew Jaynes 5:17 pm on February 17, 2015
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4.2 NUX Group Agenda, February 17, 2015

Here’s the agenda for Tuesday’s NUX working group chat in the #core-flow channel on Slack.

Time/Date: Tuesday February 17 2015 19:00 UTC

This is the second weekly chat for the 4.2 NUX working group. Just as a reminder, group discussions are open to anyone who would like to attend and participate. Come and join us!

Chat Leader: @DrewAPicture
Topic: Welcome Panel

  • Welcome – Following our testing of the chaos theory last week, we’ll take just a minute to cover general chat etiquette and lay out some basic guidelines for how these chats will be conducted going forward
  • Discussion Topics:
    1. Value: What value does the Welcome Panel serve for new vs existing users?
    2. Content: What’s working and what isn’t? Are there better ideas?
  • Brainstorm: – Re-implemntation of the Welcome Panel
  • Recommendations: – Next steps

#4-2, #agenda, #nux