Panel Proposal
"We don't all have to agree:"
Flexible UI Design
This panel will discuss approaches to designing Sakai tools that: provide a consistent Sakai user interface (UI) experience from tool to tool while at the same time accommodating diversity in UI design when implemented by different institutions, departments or disciplines. These same approaches would allow the transformation of the UI to address the alternative access needs of individual learners or educators. Panelists will discuss the tools, architecture and design strategies needed to realize these goals.
The goal of this panel is to discuss the goals, strategies and implications of implementing a design approach within Sakai that makes it possible to transform the UI of Sakai Tools for different implementations or users. The panel will bring together Sakai community experts on a variety of current and potential flexible UI approaches. Among the topics to be discussed will be:
Design patterns in the UI domain,
Java Server Faces, Struts and Shale,
Skins, Style Sheets and authoring re-stylable interfaces,
Widget repositories and widget aggregation,
Facilitating flexibility in third party plugins, and
Specifications, pedagogies and how they impact on UI design.
The discussion following the presentations will solicit UI requirements from the audience and discuss methods of achieving these requirements using the flexible UI approaches presented. The panel will draw participants into a community of interest on implementing an accessible and flexible UI in Sakai.
Moderator: Jutta Treviranus
Panelists: Daphne Ogle, Mark Norton, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, Aaron Zeckoski, Anastasia Cheetham, and Gonzalo Silverio.