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•  [August] Establish a DSpace UI Prototype Working Group, which will manage the process of establishing prototypes and helping us select a UI platform
•  [September] Establish UI piloting process / guidelines: see DSpace UI Prototype Challenge and announcement to all mailing lists
•  [September - December] : DSpace UI Prototype Challenge - Announce and run the Prototyping Challenge to test out a variety of UI platforms (ideally some non-Java and some Java-based)
  
  •  Each prototype much be kept transparent and public(on GitHub)
  •  Prototypes due by December 4
  •  Signup and full guidelines are at DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
•  [January / February]  : The prototypes, their code, and initial notes/analysis will be made publicly available for community-wide feedback. See signup at DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
  
  •  Reviewed more formally by DSpace UI Prototype Working Group based on the DSpace UI Criteria
•  [March] Discussion of final candidates at DuraSpace Summit with Steering and Leadership groups
  
  •  DSpace UI Working Group Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bvJrRWEO2ZLTCLqNiaJ_KXGZKHNfXDjnqHWt_ZYGek4/edit
•  [April - June]  Extended prototype phase of an Angular 2 prototype as recommended at DuraSpace Summit. A team comprised of several institutions (Texas A&M, @mire, Cineca, DuraSpace) will collaborate on this prototype, and determine its plausibility (as a future UI)
  
•  [June / July] : A single UI platform will be selected from feedback and analysis of prototypes.  See OR16 presentation slides http://www.slideshare.net/tdonohue/introducing-the-new-dspace-user-interface
  
  •  The selection should be approved by Committers
  •  The selection should be approved by DCAT
  •  The selection must be approved by Steering Group
  •  The selection must be approved by Leadership Group

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•  Find a (part-time?) user experience (UX) designer/expert to create mockups/wireframes (using Balsamiq Mockups or similar) of the new DSpace UI experience
  
  •  Initially this UX design work may concentrate on specific areas that are known to be problematic in DSpace (e.g. Admin tools).
  •  This work should involve analyzing examples of good user experience design (in both repository platforms and on the web in general), and finding ways to potentially apply them to the DSpace user experience.
    
  •  Depending on available funds, this person may need to be a volunteer or donated from an institution
    
•  Per discussions on mailing lists, a UX working group may be created to help move this effort forward

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Development Phase - Building the UI

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