What can we incorporate in TxDS regarding changes in our product's UI/UX?

[mikegianno]

Read and try to see if some items can be related to this: https://medium.com/@jmspool/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate-our-design-choices-86151866eff4

Whole idea triggered by @glezos :)

[dontpanicgr]

An initiative I propose is beta or lab access program where work in progress features & experiments are rolling out to a group of users with the goal to test or validate ideas and implementations.

Examples:

Wikipedia
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features

Gmail
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#settings/labs

Asana

[dontpanicgr]

Jira Labs

[dontpanicgr]

Atlassian has the EAP and Jira Labs programs.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/eap-releases-126919.html

An Early Access Program (EAP) release is a public development release leading up to the official release of a JIRA version. Development releases are a snapshot of our work in progress, primarily focused on allowing JIRA users to see the new features in advance and provide us with some useful feedback. It also gives plugin developers an opportunity to test and fix their plugins in advance of an official release.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/33202/atlassian-labs

Experiments released into the world! Atlassian Labs holds unsupported apps and personal projects by Atlassian developers. Although you may find unique and highly useful functionality in the Atlassian Labs apps, Atlassian takes no responsibility for your use of these apps. The apps are often developed in conjunction with Atlassian hack-a-thons and ShipIt days and are provided to you completely “as-is”, with all bugs and errors, and are not supported by Atlassian.

[dontpanicgr]

Reddit Beta process

• Beta opt in/out structure. Expose as user preference in the UI
• Users can sumbit feedback via form
  https://reddit.typeform.com/to/yfZ4nT
• Community forum for feedback and feagture requests
  https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/

[dontpanicgr]

Recently an unmoderated user testing was run using https://maze.design/ tool.
The process was absolutely amazing for both facilitators and testers.

Analysis & Results

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I say we give this a try!
@mikegianno @codegaze @yiotaz