[Design-team] Introduction: Nicole Harris

[Nicole Harris]

Hi Máirín,

Thanks for the warm welcome.

The sticky-notes piece sounds like a good place to start - hook me up and I
will see how it goes!

Thanks,
Nicole



2012/4/12 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>

> Hi Nicole!
>
> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 07:31 +1000, Nicole Harris wrote:
> > My name is Nicole Harris - I'm a web designer based in Melbourne,
> > Australia. I've been using linux for a while now and am a recent
> > convert to Fedora (previously I used ubuntu).
>
> It's a pleasure to meet you; I'm so excited to see your interest in our
> team!
> >
> > I'd love to get involved - I'm specifically interested in learning
> > more about UX design and participating in these types of projects.
> >
> >
> > Some examples of my work:
> >
> > www.roi.com.au (this is my workplace - i redesigned their website last
> > year, since then someone else has taken over the project, but my
> > initial design is still *pretty much* there)
> > www.sanremoballroom.com.au
> > www.janetwolf.com.au (one of my really early designs...)
>
> Very impressive portfolio! Fantastic visual design on all of these.
> >
> > By day I now focus on conversion based solutions for online marketing
> > campaigns - this involves a/b and multivariate split testing.
> >
> > By night I am designing a couple of web apps (too early to show you
> > any examples...!) with my partner who is a web developer.
> >
> > skills:
> > Gimp, Inkscape
> > HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Joomla
> > Jquery (beginner)
> >
> > Looking forward to getting my hands dirty!
>
> Awesome! I'm so glad to see you have so much open source tool
> experience :)
>
> Our normal process for joining the team is that we ask new recruits to
> take on a minor ticket in our tracking system as sort of
> practical/applied introduction to how the Fedora community works. You
> end up making connections and learning the Fedora infrastructure through
> that which powers you to taking on bigger projects.
>
> I don't know if the design ticket has been filed yet, but the Fedora
> infrastructure team (#fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net) yesterday was
> talking about needing a Fedora skin for a stickynotes web app they're
> looking to deploy. A test instance of it is available at:
>
> http://dcr226.co.uk/paste/sticky-notes
>
> We'd want, at a minimum, for the design/template to match our newer
> Fedora infrastructure templates such as for Fedora packages (I did the
> skin for this one):
>
> https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/inkscape
>
> Or Koji, our build system (Ryan Lerch, who is also based in Australia at
> the moment, did the skin for this):
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
>
> Let me know if this seems like an intro project you'd like to take on.
> Alternatively we could find something more UX-centric for you to take on
> since you have strong interest and ability in UX stuff. We do have a few
> pending usability assessments and mockup requests in the ticket system.
> Our list of open tickets is here:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1?asc=1&page=1
>
> Anyway, I don't want to overload you with information; if the
> sticky-notes project looks interesting let me know and I can get a
> ticket for it assigned to you, otherwise let's chat more about potential
> UX projects?
>
> ~m
>
>
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