Inkscape UX & UI
Each Inkscape team has responsibilities, rules and specific privileges. These are documented here, so all teams understand how they are supposed to work and what may be required of them.
Team Charter
The aim of the Inkscape UI team is to improve the Inkscape user experience by enhancing the intuitiveness, consistency, and logic. The responsibilities of the Inkscape User Interface team will be:
- Provide a positive working environment for producing UI designs.
- Create UI documents and guides to be referenced in future UI developments.
- To prove UX proposals with user testing with user-case analysis and benchmarking.
- Offer complete solutions to developers when implementing new features.
- Work with developers in a consensus to achieve a finale design. Scope of Design proposals:
- Inkscape Graphical User Interface (GUI) (inkscape)
- Inkscape command-line interface. (inkscape)
- Inkscape website, wiki, social messaging (inkscape-web)
- Inkscape documentation, books and other media (inkscape-docs) What to expect from the Inkscape project:
- Decisions made by the UI team should be respected by developers.
- Designers should be engaged in good-faith consensus building.
- Changes to design may happen without consultation, but...
- Designers are permitted to request a meeting to discuss the change. The composition and management:
- It is part of the Inkscape project.
- The team is a collective of volunteers with no hierarchy.
- Anyone from inside or outside of the Inkscape project is welcome to join.
- Arbitration will follow the same process as other Inkscape teams.