The RCUE Project
The Red Hat Common User Experience (RCUE) initiative is a cross-organizational design unification effort aimed at creating a better user experience for Red Hat customers. The RCUE design work is created through a user experience design process that includes: user research, interaction/visual design, usability testing, technical documentation, and code.
Continuous learning and feedback is key to the RCUE effort. User testing helps to improve and validate designs as it builds credibility around current recommendations. In addition to RCUE specific tests, we will attempt to leverage testing and evaluation results from projects that have applied RCUE patterns. Take-aways from those projects will be fed back into pattern work, and future design recommendations, and when necessary drive changes to existing patterns.
To promote community-based innovation around design patterns targeted towards enterprise IT applications we created the PatternFly project. On the PatternFly site, you will find a toolkit of general UI widget and components along with a library of common interaction patterns that can be applied in your designs. UI designers who are both internal and external to Red Hat are encouraged contribute in our upstream community.
For more information about RCUE or to learn how you can become involved, contact the Red Hat User Experience Design team at uxd-team@redhat.com.