Participants: Frode Hegland, Fabien Bénétou
The major topic of the meeting was designing and optimizing demo experiences for VR/XR authoring environments, with significant discussion about the workflow for making design changes.
Frode Hegland was focused on optimizing the user experience details like element positioning and distances, emphasizing his role as designer and the importance of iterative, collaborative testing. He expressed frustration about implementation challenges and highlighted website analytics showing user engagement with their demos and sessions.
Fabien Bénétou expressed disinterest in making what he viewed as arbitrary parameter adjustments, preferring to focus on more complex, composable solutions. He emphasized the open-source nature of the project and his desire for more systematic, documented approaches to design changes rather than continuous adjustments.
Issues Raised:
- Element positioning and distances
- Frode: Elements appear too close in the VR space, particularly code snippets
- Solution: Iterative testing with users to find optimal distances
- Fabien: Prefers receiving specific measurement values to implement
- Workflow for design changes
- Frode: Prefers collaborative, real-time adjustment sessions
- Fabien: Prefers systematic approaches with documented justifications
- Solution: Consider implementing a ruler tool for more precise measurements
- Demo supervision requirements
- Issue: Dene needs support when conducting demos
- Solution: Ensure either Frode or Fabien is available when Dene demonstrates the system
- Documentation of changes
- Solution: Create a devlog category on the website to record all design decisions and changes
Decisions:
- Create a dedicated section on the website for development logs
- Schedule a session to optimize one room (the cards room) together
- Continue with standing rather than seated demos
- Consider implementing a ruler tool for more precise measurements
- Potentially organize monthly sessions dedicated to parameter adjustments
Action Items:
- Meet with Dene later the same day to discuss the demo process
- Create a new devlog category on the website
- Record a clean tutorial on how to edit and save parameter changes
- Document parameter changes after each session