MoodleNet/Front-end dev workshop

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Doug and Mayel from the MoodleNet team spent three days (Weds 19th to Fri 21st September 2018) with Outlandish. This was follow-up work to the Design Sprint we did back in May 2018, and to UX Milestones 1 and 2.

We had an ambitious agenda for the workshop, aiming to:

• Allow Sam, the front-end developer Outlandish have assigned to this project, to get up to speed with MoodleNet
• Help define and scope front-end deliverables
• Decide on the layout/look/feel of both the desktop and mobile web versions of MoodleNet
• Create a draft style guide (in code)
• Develop a basic app (skeleton repo in GitLab)
• Filed GitLab issues for (at least 1+ month of) post-workshop front-end development
• Agree on the toolkit (incl. libraries) we’re going to use

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There is a GitLab board to track issues from both this workshop and forthcoming front-end development work.

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During the workshop itself, we managed to:

• Prioritise the above work, using a 'must', 'should', and 'could' approach
• List the assumptions we came into the workshop with and whether they're actually correct
• Agree on the front-end toolkit we're going to use and make decisions on components
• Make some UI decisions, building on UX Milestones 1 and 2
• Decide on resource allocation
• Figure out what the 'containers' would look like from a basic design point of view
• Start thinking about pre-MVP user testing