Under the patronage of the TYPO3 Association and with the financial and organizational support of leading TYPO3 service providers, the TYPO3 User Experience Week 2009 will take place between the 14th and the 21st November. A total of 30 developers, interface designers and project managers representing various providers or free-lance specialists will be chosen by an ad hoc jury of TYPO3 Association members and given the task of working together on the Backend of this, the world’s leading Open Source Web Content Management System, to locate and strengthen those soft spots most urgently needing attention and resolve their underlying issues – all within a single week. AOE media is not only sending two certified TYPO3 specialists to this event, but also actively supporting it as a sponsor, by helping with the organization, serving on the jury as well as by contributing valuable TYPO3 project know-how.
Some background to the TYPO3 User Experience Week: the original TYPO3 Backend has grown over the years to the point of becoming something of a jungle in places. As a result, some parts need pruning and improving. This is the reason why AOE media, for example, provides its customers with its own custom optimized TYPO3 Backend skin, to give their clients’ staff a clearer overview of the many available TYPO3 functions. The common goal for the week is therefore to render TYPO3 more user- and customer-friendly. One of the main tasks will be to create an entirely new Backend skin that will not only serve for the current and imminent series 4 Versions, but also for the upcoming TYPO3 v.5.0.
This year the chosen participants will be locked up in the proverbial “Ivory Tower”, as the T3UW09 will be held in a medieval castle near Eisenach in Thüringen. But despite being on the edge of a beautiful nature reserve, the participants will not get much time for hiking. Once they’ve finished work on the Backend skin, the agenda for the week still includes the following:
- taking out redundant functions,
- improving out-of-the-box preset implementation,
- optimizing the technical wording within the Backend,
- re-design the icons,
- tidy-up the current Backend CSS,
- integrate a new Page Wizard,
- integrate improved Search and Options fields in the Backend and
- entirely rework the Workspace User Interface and the History User Interface.
In addition, the TemplaVoilá and Page Modul solutions developed by AOE media, which result directly from a working interaction with our clients, will probably also be discussed at the T3UXW09 and integrated into the standard TYPO3 Backend.
Further information on the TYPO3 User Experience Week 2009 can be found at: http://t3uxw09.typo3.org/about/introduction/.
