UI/UX General Discussion and Notes

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Name :     CALM : UI/UX Brainstorming

Date :     October 29, 2024

Attendees :   
Denis Coffaro
Joseph Brown-Pobee
Konadu Appiah
Dorothy Ewuah
Ross Maden
Olivia Johnson
Aaman Rebello

Agenda : Bringing folks together who are interested in the UI/UX CALM. Open session on approaches, languages, frameworks, questions, comments... The formalization of conversations to decisions will be captured in ADR's.

Documentation:
Repository – https://github.com/finos/architecture-as-code
Docs - https://finos.github.io/architecture-as-code/
CALM Introduction – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKjRSMQjy6E
Create a CALM mission statement - how does CALM add value to your organization:
1. 30/60/90 second content
2. Pitch deck
ADR's - the formalized collection and memorialization will be in the form of ADR's

Design:
Do we envision a web front end - Platform
CALM documents will be local or distributed - CALM Hub
Defined interactions based on intentions
Business case
Capability mapping
User personas
Scoped features
Wireframes
User stories

Frameworks:
General discussion on frameworks and languages:
icepanel.io
jsplumptoolkit.com
reactflow.dev
gojs.net
cytoscape.js
gephi.org
github.com/excalidraw

Dependencies:

1. Needs to be aligned to schema milestone v1
2. CLI validation - validation is the first point of executing any visualization request including:
   a. CLI visualization
   b. VS Code plugin visualization
   c. UI visualization
3. Test coverage - how can we be sure cli, and all other features, have adequate coverage over releases

Resourcing:   
Sourcing UX and possibly UI resources - pending commitments and engagement model

Principles:   
Supportability, popularity and OSS
Industry Tech Principles

Requests :   
Front to back working and validated collection of CALM documents
Forward office hours to attendees
Forward attendees process to contribute to OSS at MS

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We've identified a UX resource who can work with us on the UI. Formalities and engagement details to follow.