Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/User interface

T119162 - This is the session pad for the User-interface presentation area session, slated to begin at 11:30am on Monday, January 4.

Purpose
This area is focused on the following questions: "How to we make our software beautiful and joyful to use? How can we allow more fluid collaboration between designers and user interaction experts? How do we provide for safe experimentation and provide a smooth glidepath for successful experiments to graduate to mainstream usage in our deployed software?"

Agenda

 * 5-20 minutes - introductory comments
 * 60-75 minutes - open discussion

Etherpad
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T119162

Goals
Let's use this time to discuss the answers to these questions:
 * Do we have the questions right?
 * Who are the stakeholders?
 * E.g.
 * Wikimedia software developers (and enumeration of various categories)
 * Wikimedia editors (with or without elevated privs, experience, etc)
 * Casual users (various categories of language, connectivity, device support)
 * What qualities are important to the stakeholders?
 * Do any of these deserve unconference time? How about time during this session?
 * T114065: The future of MobileFrontend
 * T112996: A vision for templates / wikitext 2.0
 * T112984: Real Time Collaborative Editing
 * T113004: Make it easy to fork, branch, and merge pages (or more)
 * Highlight upcoming session (10:00 AM Tuesday)
 * T114071: Let's discuss the skin creation process. Any prediscussion needed for this?
 * Possible followup from T114542 - Next Generation Content Loading and Routing
 * Related: T111588: [RFC] API-driven web front-end (and related T106099)

Chronology
''This section is where an attempt is made to capture the gist of who said what, in what order. A transcript isn't necessary, but it's useful to capture the important points made by speakers as they happen.''