This document proposes the Joomla User eXperience (JUX) Project to improve the user experience, user interface, usability, and accessibility of the Joomla content management system. It notes that while Joomla has evolved technically, user experience improvements have lagged. The JUX Project would form a dedicated team to continuously implement UX best practices and innovations with each Joomla release. This would help address issues like inconsistent user interfaces across extensions and provide Joomla with Apple-level UX standards. The document encourages community developers to get involved to help drive UX advancements upstream into the Joomla core.

1. JUX
Joomla User eXperience Project
by
Kyle Ledbetter
Principle Usability Engineer for eBay, Inc.

2. What the heck’s a JUX?
User Experience
JUX
User Interface
Usability
Accessibility

3. User Experience
UX is the whole
picture
UX can’t be created,
it can be guided
UX is a full-time
focus, not an
afterthought
UX is planned

4. User Interface
UI is your cockpit,
your panel of
controls
UI is an iterative
process, it must be
perfected over and
over
UI is designed

5. Usability
Usability is simply
how easy it is to use
something
Interactions such as
clicks, resizing, etc.
Usability is
engineered

6. Accessibility
Just as a building
must be handicap
assessable, so must
Joomla
Color blindness,
multi-lingual
difference, blindness
& more

7. Joomla hasn’t evolved much
Mambo (2004)
Joomla 1.0 ( 2005)
Joomla 1.5 (2008)
Joomla 1.7 (2011)

8. Let’s play a game.
Which one of these is
different?

13. Tons of core improvements,
few UX improvements

14. Perception of progress

15. Perception of progress

16. Apple is king of UX

17. Community Developers
AdminPraise
Rockettheme
Minima
Nooku
Udjamaflip

18. AdminPraise1

19. AdminPraise2

20. AdminPraise Lite

21. AdminPad

22. AdminPraise3

23. Mission Control

24. Minima

25. Nooku

26. Design Patterns
Common UI
occurrences:
Toolbar
simplification w/
Action button
Activity Stream
Customization

27. Best Practices Education
Extension devs want
to learn
We need it all to “feel
Joomla”
Currently there’s
terrible
disconnection

28. Joomla Innovation Cycle
Core lacks some function
Developer innovations
Other developers catch on
Joomla “islands” are formed
Band together to push features upstream

29. Joomla Innovation Cycle

30. Joomla Innovation Cycle

31. Joomla Innovation Cycle
Core lacks feature

32. Joomla Innovation Cycle
Core lacks feature
Dev Innovation

33. Joomla Innovation Cycle
Core lacks feature
Multiple Islands
Dev Innovation

34. Joomla Innovation Cycle
Push back to core
Core lacks feature
Multiple Islands
Dev Innovation

35. Where can we go with JUX?

36. Compact Car

37. Hybrid

38. Sports Car

39. Off-road 4x4

40. Blogging Dashboard

41. Projects Dashboard

42. E-commerce Dashboard

43. Social Network Dashboard

44. It’s not all that
different is it?
What if Joomla had
Apple standards?

45. Blogging Dashboard

46. Projects Dashboard

47. E-commerce Dashboard

48. Social Network Dashboard

49. JUX Team
Finally an entire
team of UX pros
UX is iterative,
never-ending
UX advancements
with every release!

50. We can start NOW
The JUX Team can
immediately help
Bluestork can
drastically be
improved for 1.8+
Joomla 2.0 is just
around the corner

51. Concepts are already
underway

58. Giving back should catch on
The JUX approach
can work everywhere
Devs can form teams
to contribute
upstream
Joomla belongs to
ALL of us

59. JUX Do It.
Thank You.
kledbetter@ebay.com