Overview edit
Technical and UX debt is a matter of priority to the reading web team. Here, we are displaying a list of themes of technical and UX debt which we have worked on and plan on working on in the following quarters of 2016/2017 (Q2-Q4). This list will be used to communicate technical and UX debt on a sprint-by-sprint basis within the team, as well as to summarize the goals and initiatives we have taken on tackling debt over time. Below each theme, an example of a task which would belong in each theme is displayed for reference.
UX Debt Themes edit
UI Standardization edit
Perceived Performance edit
Visual Design improvements edit
- Alignment issues
- paddings / margins
- font sizes
Usability edit
Accessibility edit
Low grade browser support edit
Technical Debt Themes edit
Performance edit
- tweaking something to make the site faster
Accessibility edit
- writing accessible HTML
Security edit
- addressing code with security issues
team workflows / internal edit
- improving tools used by the team, e.g. replacing jsduck in favor of jsdoc
- updating tests
Maintainability edit
- Making code modular
Clean-up edit
- removing dead code
Improvements such as using new approaches edit
- templates rather than inline PHP
- upstreaming and using the upstreamed modules rather than modules developed in an extension
- using resource loader image module rather than inlining images in CSS
Developer performance edit
- a list of articles to test against, etc.
Common Themes edit
- Accessibility
- Low grade browsers
- Usability