The Employee & H9 Meeting Notes: February 15, 2023

Hi Josh (and Lauren! I thought I’d CC you, but svp let me know if that’s overboard!)

Hope your week is off to a good start. Please find below our meeting notes from February 15, 2023, starting with “next steps.” As always, please let us know if you have any questions. Otherwise, see you on March 2!

All the best + more soon,

mark

Next steps:

• H9:

• Link to UX process presentation (as PDF as per usual H9 process)

• https://www.dropbox.com/#redacted Employee – UX-Presentation.pdf?dl=0 

• Link to Personas

• https://www.dropbox.com/#redacted Employee_UX-Personas.pdf?dl=0 

• Alex & Justin will work on Information Architecture (IA), to present + review in next meeting

• Josh:

• Review personas & share any thoughts via email, or whatever format is easiest for you

• Next meeting:

• Follow-up meeting booked March 2, 2023. 

• Mini agenda:

• Present Information Architecture

• Finalize Personas

• Book next meeting to review wireframes (and/or IA edits, if needed)

Agenda:

• Record meeting

• UX Process Presentation (Alex + Justin)

• For Josh to understand why we’re doing this process and why it’s beneficial to the project

• https://www.dropbox.com/#redacted Employee – UX-Presentation.pdf?dl=0 

• Personas

• Review what we have, get feedback/insight from Josh

• I.e. groups identified, intentions for each

• https://www.dropbox.com/#redacted Employee_UX-Personas.pdf?dl=0 

• IA

• What is the most important thing to communicate immediately?

• I.e. volume, complexity, people, time, etc.

• To book: personas and IA approval meeting week of Feb 27 (booked March 2)

• To book: wireframe review and approval meeting as of/after March 9 (tbd)

Discussion:

• Josh: I think the website/project is information architecture

• Josh: ██████ ███ ██ ███ is interested in the work and is similar to the Hélène persona

• Josh: The website is a communication of what the work was. I want it to be the experience of the work. But at some level, there should be some sort of curatorial explanation. 

• Farah: The relationship between website and publication… This was a discussion Louis and Miranda were having… What if someone has the link but has never seen the book? We had these questions… and the UX process is bringing this to our attention.

• Josh: The art appreciator, they’re not going to get this.

• Josh: I would add an art historian or an MFA student studying art history, not production. I would also add a grant officer. Grant officers have expressed interest in seeing this project. 

• Josh: A grant officer will have interest in how their systems are used/discussed. To better understand the workload. To have better critical tools to push back in the industry. The officers who are the interface between artists and funding bodies, they are people who have their own opinions, and their workplaces are changing too. They are also in precarious structures. This could help them reflect critically on their jobs and reflect on what artists need. Advocacy tools. 

• Josh: People are unpredictable. But a lot of the officers I’ve spoken to understand what I’m doing.

• Josh: I put out a call for consent for sharing emails, and it was clear some people were too busy to even read what I had asked and people were freaking out, that they couldn’t even open the email. They thought I was looking for more money. I think these are people who often don’t have a lot of time to read and they’re not going to read very carefully.