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Re: Let's have a user experience workshop

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
Mar 16, 2022, 17:36 UTC
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Hi Alice,
On 15/03/2022 21:04, Alice Merrick wrote:
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> Hello Git,
>
> I’m doing a 20% project with the Git Core team at Google. I've been
> encouraged by Emily Shaffer and Jonathan Nieder to reach out to the
> Git community to help incorporate UX practices into the Git
> development cycle. My goal is to 1) gauge interest in improving Git's
> user experience and 2) recruit interested folks in organizing or
> attending a workshop where you can learn more about what UX is and
> discuss ways to bake UX into the process of making changes to Git to
> improve the experience for all users.
>
> Some additional context about me: I am a UX (user experience)
> professional at Google. I have experience applying UX and
> accessibility practices[1] to developer tools for searching,
> reviewing, debugging code, etc. For the past couple years I’ve worked
> with the Golang project on their websites and helped set project
> priorities by collecting community feedback through their annual
> developer survey[2].
>
> Interested?
> * Join the git UX Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/git-ux) if you
> are interested in participating in an event.

I joined the group, but there are no current entries, and, at present I can't post anything.

I am interested in the UX from the perspective of Human Error and how we form our mental models of the task at hand (e.g. see historic discussions about the 'staging area').

Git does have rather a lot of non physical concepts to grasp, and now that it's way beyond being just an SCM for the Linux kernel, the user base has become rather diverse.

I'm a retired systems engineer who worked in defence electro-optics in the UK. I am mainly on Windows.

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> * Reply directly to this email if you are interested in organizing the
> event to discuss git UX (scheduling the event, sending invites,
> communicating with invitees)
>
>
> [1] https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445544
> [2] https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results
>

-- Philip

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Message 2 of 14 in “Let's have a user experience workshop”
  1. Alice MerrickMar 15, 2022
  2. Philip OakleyMar 16, 2022
  3. Emily ShafferMar 16, 2022
  4. Philip OakleyMar 16, 2022
  5. Michal SuchánekMar 16, 2022
  6. Emily ShafferMar 16, 2022
  7. Michal SuchánekMar 16, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2022
  9. Jonathan NiederMay 10, 2022
  10. Emily ShafferMay 12, 2022
  11. Jonathan NiederMay 15, 2022
  12. Emily ShafferMay 16, 2022
  13. Alice MerrickMay 20, 2022
  14. rsbecker@nexbridge.comMay 20, 2022

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