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https://decentpatterns.xyz/report/#key-terms

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Towards A Common Glossary for Decentralized Technologies

https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/new

Description

Type: virtual workshop
Length: 2 hours
Date: between August 7-9
Duration: once
Language: English

Objectives

• Learn about the 7 key challenges that hinder the adoption of decentralized applications
• Deep-dive into design and developer onboarding & naming. How do we name things across the ecosystem? Where does terminology help or hinder understanding across different protocols and applications? What are appropriate metaphors and descriptions for different user groups?
• Where can we converge on particular names for key concepts? How would we go about creating a common glossary?
• This work is part of DOTS: Decentralization, off the shelf. [launching early June]

Material and Technical Requirements

Platform: video conferencing
Technical considerations: We want to hear questions and comments from audience throughout the workshop; we will need a remote facilitation / canvas tool (e.g. Miro, Pushpin).
Additional considerations: Max number of participants: 20 (speaking), 50 (live chat)

Presenters

Name: Eileen Wagner, Program Manager at Simply Secure
Email: [email protected]
Url(s): decentpatterns.xyz
Twitter: @bumblblu
GitHub: @bumbleblue

Eileen advises teams and organizations on UX design and research at Simply Secure. Her focus is on information architecture, content strategy, and interaction design--or anything that helps people make sense of complex technologies. She works with numerous projects in decentralization and security, and enjoys facilitating relationships between the builders and users of technology. Her background is in analytic philosophy and mathematical logic, and she won’t stop talking about demoing barbershop music.

Name: Karissa McKelvey, Technology & Partnerships at Digital Democracy and Research Fellow at Simply Secure
Twitter: @okdistribute
GitHub: @okdistribute

Karissa researches technical architecture design and its impact on usability, safety, and resilience. Her contributions to decentralized applications are depended upon by at-risk users including human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society activists living within repressive environments. Previously, she led user and developer experience for dat and hypercore, a decentralized data sharing tool and peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. Her background is in political sociology and data science, and she loves making weird musical art that touches your funny bone.

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What's the best way to link to related patterns?

I've started using the category "related" in the YAML, e.g. here https://github.com/simplysecure/dots-patterns/blob/master/patterns/discovery-pub.md

Is there a better way?

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Pattern Library page description

Every piece of software needs some amount of interface, content, and service design. This is no different in decentralization. What is different, however, is that decentralization introduces concepts and scenarios that are diverging from today’s dominant, centralized paradigms. These design patterns are generalizable to protocols, applications, and the user interfaces of decentralized applications.

See something missing? Please propose a new pattern.

Pattern Index page description

(same as above!)

Glossary description

Decentralization introduces a wealth of new concepts, many of which are named and described in different ways across many projects. This causes confusion among early adopters as well as barriers in onboarding new users. We've attempted to capture many of decentralization concepts in this glossary. If you see a term missing or incorrect, please propose a change.

About DOTS

DOTS, short for Decentralization Off The Shelf, is a design project supporting practitioners in decentralization with interface, content, and service design. Our main resource is a library of tried-and-tested design patterns, along with a glossary of terms and a research report detailing the needs and gaps we see in this space.

DOTS is hosted by Simply Secure, a US-based nonprofit supporting the usability of safety and privacy tools. It aligns with Simply Secure's overall mission of creating open design resources for the community. We are actively seeking funding for the development of further resources. You can support us by backing DOTS.

Vision & Mission

Decentralized technologies enable alternative applications that challenge the traditional models: where government and corporate control are causing harm, decentralized technologies have the potential to bring about autonomy, resilience, and equity.

However, there is a significant gap between the protocols that define the decentralization space and the applications that users want to adopt. One of the missing aspects is UX design and testing that could bring decentralized protocols and applications to the next level of adoption.

Our mission is to develop UX components and tools that developers and designers can use to build better user-facing applications backed by decentralized architectures. We do this by producing a library of resources, assets, and design patterns with the help and input of the larger community.

Why Design?

Designers aren't people with special powers to intuit what users want and need. If anything, designers know that they don't know what users want and need, and will go out to investigate. This is how we approach design in decentralization: through a series of hands-on research and testing, we have compiled ideas and best practices for decentralization design.

A featured pattern can currently be seen on the pattern library page. That section should move to the landing page.

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