Gaia/Meeting/2011-11-10

Introductions

• Trond (Trond Werner Hansen), New York: working on UX for gaia
• benfrancis (Ben Francis), England: developer on gaia frontend
• bsterne (Brandon Sterne), MV: security liason for b2g
• philikon (Philipp von Weitershausen), SF/MV: b2g team, lurking in gaia
• limi (Alexander Limi), SF, head of FF UI team
• gal (Andreas gal), MV, b2g
• cjones (Chris Jones), LA, b2g
• (Patryk wasn't able to dial in)

Current Gaia status

• In sprint mode. Worry about basic function, less about polished UX/UI. Shamelessly copying along the way.
• Web browser (benfrancis): basic functionality, ran into limitations
• Camera/gallery (benfrancis): planning
• Dialer (vingtetun): In a good state. No outgoing call UI or incoming call UI.
• SMS (vingtetun): Most complete application. Has a conversation summary view, and per-conversation detailed view.
• Contacts (vivien): basic functionality, limited by API availability.
• Home screen: focused on perf. Basic grid of icons model with a status bar.
• Lock screen: basic functionality, date/time display with notifications.
• Back button behavior: avoid navigating back when home screen would be the target

UX Team

• Analyzing interaction design.
  • figure out what works in other OSes, what doesn't (e.g. back behavior)
• Quick round of icons (Patryk). Very early stage.
• Looking at convention designs first. But also look at more exotic, refreshing designs

Working with gaia

• Prototype works fine in desktop Firefox (or others)
  • Repository: https://github.com/andreasgal/gaia
  • Live demo: http://andreasgal.github.com/gaia/
• Now that we have wifi access, we'll point our phone UI at the github demo so that it automatically updates each night.

Collaboration between UX and frontend teams

• Exchange ideas and mockups, iterate. Deliver feedback on prototypes.
• Schedule bi-weekly meeting for now. Details going to dev-b2g.
• Use dev-b2g mailing list for communication initially
  • https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
  • http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.b2g
• IRC channel: #gaia

Round table

• Security reviews
  • Three teams with overlapping goals: WebAPI (new DOM APIs), B2G (OS support), Gaia (user interface). Each will have separate meetings.
  • Work and priorities are tracked from B2G/Roadmap
• Ben likes to use story cards (e.g. https://github.com/krellian/photos/wiki/Story-Cards). Limi says UX team uses similar tools.