Vision, Goals & Design Principles

Vision

UX Methods catalogs and communicates the connections between the methods and practices employed in user experience design.

Goals

1. Create a useful, dynamic, trustworthy, and authoritative resource for UX techniques, processes, and resources.
   Metrics: Increased return traffic, inbound links, and social sharing


2. Facilitate and encourage community participation in order to help keep resources relevant, up-to-date, and reflective of a diverse range of needs, contexts, and experiences.
   Metrics: Participation in terms of feedback, links, resources, and additions

3. Provide an example of integrated, content-first communication solutions that prioritize communicating information (as opposed to “publishing pages”).
   Metric: Multimodal publication and use of content

4. Speed and accessibility: should feel “native” fast and fully support the use of assistive technology.
   Metrics: Combined Lighthouse scores and WCAG 2.0 compliance both in the 95th percentile

Design Principles

1. Content First Design
   Well-structured, fully accessible content is a first-order concern


2. Built to Change
   Content data is built to evolve over time in support of knowledge graph integration and potential future publishing channels

3. Communication Over Pageviews
   Communication via the user’s preferred mode of consumption is prioritized over “page views” or other fixed-medium metrics 


4. Operationalized for Efficiency
   Once set in motion, processes, and technologies require minimal intervention for routine additions and updates


5. Collaboration Ready
   Content is easy to update and evolve for project collaborators and contributors


6. Feedback Friendly
   Users are encouraged to give feedback, both through messaging and through the ease of use of feedback mechanisms


7. Mobile First Presentation
   Content presented on screen is optimized for mobile and responsive to desktop contexts