Hello Everyone!
My name is Jason Brock and I'm a Web UX and Visual Designer at Red Hat.
With your permission and participation I'd like to offer my skills and
experience to help update and improve the Apache Camel Website.
In the interest of total transparency, my process for open-source project
websites usually looks like this:
1. Style Tiles
- We deliver a small selection (3-5) style tiles, to establish
guidelines for a visual design language
- You nice folks evaluate those suggestions and provide feedback.
Maybe you hold a vote. Maybe you have a discussion with feedback
and change
requests. That part is up to your project team.
- We deliver a revised/style tile for review.
- Repeat as necessary.
2. Architecture
- We deliver a proposal for information architecture. Usually a
visual map of the site that shows how many pages there are, how they're
connected, and a high-level overview of what kinds of content exist there.
- The community evaluates our design and provides feedback
- We revise...
- Repeat as necessary.
3. Wireframes (sometimes we can skip straight to Mockups if things
are moving along well)
- We build some mid-resolution layouts of how the pages of the site
will be arranged, usually black and white, not a lot of imagery, just
getting the blocking right for page flow and functionality.
- The community weighs in...
- We revise...
- Repeat as necessary.
4. Mockups
- We build high resolution mockups of the pages, intended to be used
by front-end engineers to code against.
- The community weighs in...
- We revise...
- Repeat until everyone is in agreement.
5. Coding
- Could be interested community members, or our MWES engineers. Most
likely a combination of both.
- We help review the final product against the approved mockups
- The community weighs in...
6. The site goes live!
- We all celebrate
Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns at any
time through this process, my aim is to support not dictate.
(If there's a good IRC channel or public chat service that you like to use,
someone please let me know - I'll join and you can ping me there, too)
All the best,
JASON K BROCK
Web UX DESIGNER, MIDDLEWARE ENGINEERING SERVICES
Red Hat - Austin, TX <https://www.redhat.com/> | jbr...@redhat.com |
512-786-8304
