sig-ui-ux

Special Interest Group UI & UX (SIG-UI-UX)

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.

What We Do

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.

How to Contribute

As a contributor, you can help in the following ways:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Helpful Information

With the above information detailing our purpose and contribution, the information below will help you get started.

Who is the Chair and Co-chair?

• Chair: Joshua Rainbolt (@rainbj), Sr. UX Designer at Amazon
• Co-chair: Bhanuja Sanghavi (@bhanuja-s), UX Designer at Amazon

How do I get in contact with you?

We use Discord, join in on the conversation on the #sig-ui-ux channel.

Can I join your mailing list? What will I be notified about?

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.

When do you meet?

We meet once or twice a week on Discord. View our agenda and our calendar.

• Bi-weekly Meeting: On the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 11:00 PT, we meet to do Design Reviews, RTE Updates, and What's New Demos.
• Office Hours: Every Thursday at 9:00 PT, we meet to discuss the topics on the agenda, and then the open issues. Feel free to sign-up!

Can we meet outside of meetings?

Of course! Please begin by contacting us on Discord, and/or adding yourself to a meeting agenda to get time with the group.

How can I learn more about the SIG-UI-UX?

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.