Lisa Rex — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:49:49 GMT

The developers I’ve worked with would rather spend time coding than collaborate on the UI in a wiki. If a team is going to go to the trouble of creating their specification in a wiki, they may as well create task tickets for pieces of the UI and assign them to team members.

The Trac Project works brilliantly for this. It has a built-in wiki which is fantastic for communicating high level concepts and essentials like the link to the dev server, but the integrated issue tracking features are great, powerful and easy to use. Once opened, the ticket can be assigned priority, ownership, milestone, component etc. but anyone can comment on the ticket as well as upload files such as PDF and screenshots.

Personally, I find issue tracking to be an organized way to work. Wiki’s can get out of date, but anyone with a ticket assigned them will be keen to the ticket complete, signed off and off their plate.

Lisa Rex — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:49:42 GMT

Great interview. I’m really looking forward to the final release of Drupal 7. I’ve started with Drupal 6 and it’s definitely an awesome CMS, but D7 and Mark & Leisa’s UX expertise will really bring it all together.

FYI Design in the Open is a social network that Leisa created for open source designers. It’s a growing community and hopefully we’ll see even more participation in the coming months. http://www.designintheopen.org/

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