The SIG-UI-UX is a group of individuals who care deeply about the user experience of O3DE. The group is comprised of UX Experts, Developers, Game Artists, and an array of community contributors. Anyone, who cares about the user experience of O3DE, is welcome to join. This SIG is a crosscutting team that works alongside other SIGs to raise the bar of the engine's user experience.
We manage the work stream for O3DE interfaces, including new workflows and design patterns for upcoming features within O3DE. We also undertake ongoing issues or features reported through GitHub. Additionally, we spend a percentage of our time designing a systematic approach to working with users of our designs within their tools. We do this by creating and maintaining our design system, the Blue Jay Design System. Ultimately, we run and maintain a set of quality standard for O3DE, this is through the Rev the Engine program which allows us to track and set goals for the health of O3DE over many iterations.
You can learn more about our work via our roadmap.
We also offer weekly office hours, where you can sign up and get help with any questions or challenges you may be facing.
→ Sign-Up Sheet ←
These sessions are held every Thursday @ 09:00 PT (Timezone Converter) via Discord, on the #sig-ui-ux voice channel. We also have a persistent GitHub Issue that you can visit for more information: #114.
As a contributor, you can help in the following ways:
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Providing feedback on designs, as we review them. As a user of O3DE, your viewpoint acts as another data point to the overall conversation. This allows the SIG to make sure all interactions are covered, from multiple perspectives, which in turn helps us to learn and grow.
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We are a small team, and always appreciate help. If you think you can help with O3DE's user experience, let us know, and we'll find a way for us to collaborate. This could be in the form of conducting research, designing, writing and/or maintaining our documentation, or working on issues.
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If you're a subject-matter expert, we would love your help as a research participant. We design great things by collaborating with experts like you. Moreover, collecting feedback directly from end-users can make O3DE great.
You can learn much more by reading our Contributing README and UX Patterns
With the above information detailing our purpose and contribution, the information below will help you get started.
- Chair: Joshua Rainbolt (@rainbj), Sr. UX Designer at Amazon
- Co-chair: Bhanuja Sanghavi (@bhanuja-s), UX Designer at Amazon
You can learn more about our current work by visiting our roadmap.
We use Discord, join in on the conversation on the #sig-ui-ux channel.
Yes! You can join our mailing list for meeting announcements and upcoming research participation opportunities. If you prefer Discord, you can chat to us there too for any immediate questions.
Of course! Please begin by contacting us on Discord, and/or adding yourself to a meeting agenda to get time with the group.
Read more about the SIG's Focus and Goals from the SIG Charter, or from our Governance pages.
You can learn more from our Roadmap. We are in the process of getting the O3DE Blue Jay Design System published, until then read the documentation.
This information should get you starting on working with O3DE's UI-UX team, and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to us on Discord.