secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Client UX Consistency
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Description
Description
This epic focuses on establishing consistent user experience (UX) across all Second Life clients - including streaming, mobile, desktop viewers, and third-party viewers should there be interest down stream. The objective is to provide seamless navigation, standardized interface patterns, and cross-client feature parity regardless of platform or device, ensuring users encounter a coherent and accessible Second Life experience everywhere.
Key focus areas:
- Consistent visual and interaction patterns across web, mobile, and desktop viewers (including TPVs)
- Unified onboarding and navigation workflows
- Harmonized feature sets and terminology between platforms
- Shared accessibility and usability standards
- Streamlined cross-platform account management and transitions
KPIs
- Cross-Platform Feature Parity: Number of major features with consistent behavior and presentation across mobile, web, and desktop clients
- Consistency Satisfaction: Improvement in survey scores relating to UX consistency between clients
- Onboarding Cohesion: Reduction in average onboarding time and task completion rates across all platforms
- Bug/Feedback Metrics: Reduction in user-reported cross-client inconsistencies and UX confusion by 30% quarter-over-quarter
- Accessibility Measurement: Percentage of features passing accessibility standards on all supported clients
Risks
- Platform Limitations: Differences in capability, UI technologies, and design paradigms may block or impede full UI/UX consistency
- Fragmentation of Development: Separate teams and codebases (streaming, mobile, desktop) may introduce divergence over time
- Performance Impact: Standardization efforts must avoid degrading performance or bloating clients - some of these are going to be optional
- Existing Resident Disinterest: Residents often times like what they've got, so unification efforts should be minimally disruptive to existing residents.
- Accessibility Gaps: Achieving high accessibility standards on all platforms simultaneously can be technically challenging
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by breaking this cross-client epic into concrete platform-specific work with measurable consistency and accessibility criteria; it is done when those scoped changes and their validation are defined and completed across the affected clients.
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Assessment
- Domain
- accessibility, design, desktop, frontend, mobile, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100