Closed bpdesigns closed 6 months ago
Another consideration (observed while replatforming), is that the internal resources in the UX Guide are very extensive. Much more so than in other guides. It's hard to find these internal resources if we leave them in the homepage side-nav, where the "Resources" are for other guides.
Working on an audit sheet for this, but a few items as we go along.
General
onward at the bottom of this page would just be deleted. Maybe Presentations
and Additional reading
stay. It's a lot of "directory" sort of stuff and I feel like that problem is closer to solved with the new guides and methods architecture and such.Also, if we are very aggressive on removing content that's not directly relevant, the stuff under Collaboration
might go as well. Again that seems like more "helpful directory" style content
Some conclusions so far based on the criteria:
content should be up to date
content should be what is expected when looking for ux design research resources
review the page for outdated content and links to outdated content
update content to be current
Ensure that we're referring to links in a way that's consistent w/ the methods (#588)
remove content that is not specifically a ux design research resource
And then also, what should we do about their being a public and private version of many of the resources? I recommend we cut it down to public, and redirect team members to the private stuff some other way, perhaps through the handbook?
I think minimum cleanup until we get opinions or info on if and when some of the resources are being used is to drop the "irrelevant" stuff and keep every other link that is working and expected.
@juliaklindpaintner is the current UX Guide owner, I believe. But a few thoughts from me:
Agree that the link Q should be settled by having more clarity on the audience we want to larger (internal vs. external), but I think that should be part of a larger strategy re: the guides more generally.
Thanks for your work on this @dluetger and thanks for the tag and your thoughts @MelissaBraxton!
- WRT to determining whether internal resources are up-to-date, I'd cross reference with the current 18F doctrine inventory, wherever that is. Maybe @juliaklindpaintner knows?
There hasn't been much progress here for a number of reasons. There was an effort to gather feedback on this inventory of resources, which was summarized in this document by category, but I don't think it will provide any clear answers on whether the things we link to are still up to date. Makes me wonder if we could work on some of these docs as a Design crit activity...
- Similarly, I think the link to project resources folder may not be the best place to point folks.
Inasmuch as this still functions as an internal resource, I don't see an issue with linking to project resources, but perhaps we should change it to link to the Airtable?
- Agree with getting rid of what's under "collaboration"
Agree! Let's 🪓.
- Under "general" The last 4 resources are UX specific and useful. Maybe we just remove the stuff above that and find a better/more descriptive header for the last 4?
I agree with removing the first 2, but since the two from OPM are a pair, I'd keep both. They could be consolidated to one bullet point linking to both, though. The references link is the odd link out here; the rest are "Other government resources on UX research and design" or "Other government guides to UX"?
Agree that the link Q should be settled by having more clarity on the audience we want to larger (internal vs. external), but I think that should be part of a larger strategy re: the guides more generally.
Agree with this. I think it's beyond the scope of this ticket to clean that up, so I'd leave it alone for now.
So, @dluetger, I'd say that to close out this ticket, you should just make the changes to the Collaboration and Additional reading sections and create a follow-on ticket that lists out specifically which documents need to be reviewed for accuracy/up-to-date-ness.
I think this one can be closed, right @dluetger?
Background The Resource page of the UX guide is outdated
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