Samvera User Experience Interest Group

Scope & Objectives

The Samvera User Experience (UX) interest group meets to discuss any aspect of the user experience, including usability, design, UX methods, and user interface consistency. The purpose of these discussions is to improve users' experiences with applications and systems. Such improvements are expected to occur through sharing of information and expertise across projects and institutions. 

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

Next meeting:

January 12, 2021 at 2:00 - 2:30pm ET

Meetings are typically scheduled once a month on the second Wednesday of each month at 2:00pm ET for 30 minutes.

Meeting connection details

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Meeting ID: 677 949 4947
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Slack Channel: https://samvera.slack.com/archives/C0F51BKD0

Calls are publicized beforehand via an email sent to samvera-community, samvera-partners, and samvera-tech.  

Email discussion of UX issues is welcome - please use samvera-community or samvera-tech as primary routes, depending on the nature of the topic, and prefix your email subjects with [UXIG] so the Google Group archives can be quickly searched for relevant discussions.

UX-interested people also typically gather at the annual Samvera Connect meeting.

Samvera Reference Applications

Hyrax

UX/UI benchmark for latest Hyrax UI element feature(s) state is currently the "Nurax" environment.  This environment is the platform to test against "how a UI component or page should look/behave".

• https://hyrax.samvera.org/

• https://nurax-stable.curationexperts.com/

Hyku

https://hyku.samvera.org/

Avalon Media System

https://www.avalonmediasystem.org/

Members

Organizers

• @Adam J. Arling (Northwestern University)

• @Arton, Carla M (cma4u) (University of Virginia)

Other regular participants and interested parties

• Sonya Betz (University of Alberta)

• Tim Broadwater (West Virginia University)

• Kevin Reiss (Princeton University)

• @David McCallum (University of Oregon)

• Lisa Haitz (University of Cincinnati)

• Chris Awre (University of Hull)

• Patricia Hswe (Penn State)

• @deibel (University of Washington)

• @sally.rumsey (University of Oxford)

• @nik.dragovic (Emory University)

• @Chris Diaz (Northwestern University)

• @Tracy MacMath (Yale University)

• @Jon Bodnar (Georgia State University)
  
  

Resources

Hydra UX Discussion Notes from Meetings

Unconference session at Hydra Connect 2, October 2014: Hydra UX interest group notes from Hydra Connect 2

Unconference session at Hydra Connect, January 2014:  Hydra User Experience Unconference Session: Friday 1:45-3 p.m.