== Team Vision Discussion @DebConf 2022, Prizren/Kosovo ==

=== Observed symptoms ===
   * Debian is relatively ugly (when you compare it to other distros)
     * core values based on freedom and universality; no focus not UX and aesthetics
     * built primarily by engineers with stability in mind
     * no focus on UX and aesthetics
   * People with a core design background, strong hands-on design skills and a motivation to improve Debian struggle to find ways how to contribute. From their perspective, the Debian ecosystem (incl. community talks) seem complex, tech-heavy; the mechanics of how design related improvements/contributions can be made is hard to understand.
   * Debian does not support workflows that some end-users might expect from a modern operating system (at least not "out-of-the box"), e.g. synching, viewing, streaming, editing files across Debian based devices (compared to iOS devices interplaying smoothly in the Apple ecosystem)

=== Vision ===
 * Debian provides a stable overarching out-of-the-box UX
 * Debian supports modern use-senarios and workflows adhering to free software principles
 * Debian makes it easy for designers with a non-techy background to contribute and improve Debian's UX

=== Area of Concern & Opportunity ===
 * enable non-techy people to improve and contribute to UX/design matters in Debian
  * enable designers to get started
   * provide a welcoming environment
   * get an overview of different types of design-related opportunities how they can contribute to debian
    * graphic/visual/artwork
    * themeing
    * UI design
    * interaction design
    * user scenarios/process workflows (across packages)
  * provide an overview of current design-related concerns, goals, priorities and projects within Debian
   * overview of people and teams dealing with design related stuff
   * overview of design-related projects
  * map out an overview of system components, their inherent mechanics and development processes that are relevent to understand for design/UX contributions
  * map out how to report a "design" bug
 * create a modern, easy-to-understand installation process
  * compare to Elementary OS
 * ensure visual consistency, branding and identity across desktop environments
 * adhere to, promote and embody Debian values (i.e. freedom, stability, universality) in and through design
  * make sure different DE & WMs can be installed on Debian in parallel without breaking each other
  * ensure that officially supported desktop environments adhere to standards so that they don't break things, e.g.
   * avoid symptoms like double menues in Gnome, etc
   * adhere to XDG
  * make sure packages (e.g. libre-office) runs as intended on all installed/supported DEs
   * notifications, menues, theming, etc
   * what happens with packages that require Gnome, but Gnome is not installed?
 * create a modern out-of-the-box "look & feel" for all supported desktop environments
  * how can the default configuration of DE's that are installed on Debian be made prettier?
   * see delta between Cinnamon installed on Debian and native Cinnamon in MINT.
    * pre-configuration/customisation of officially supported desktop environments (within their configuration space)
    * themeing / look & feel
   * make it easy for designers to customise/configure an attractive out-of-the-box configuration of officially supported DEs (Cinnamon, XFCE, etc)
 * useful out-of-the-box preconfiguration of supported packages
  * behavioural/Interaction Design (.bashrc/CLI, etc)
 * default installation, pre-configuration and interplay of packages towards enabling modern workflows
  * add value to end-users through a smart composition and pre-configuration of packages (whereby the interplay of packages is larger than the sum of their individual parts), e.g. 
   * making modern end-user workflows function smoothly (cross-device support of workflows)
    * reading on mobile, incl. storing/retrieving/editing notes
    * syncing content for offline consumption/editing (notes,video,music)
    * streaming content (to TV in bedroom)
    * integration with SolidBox (?)
    * sensory data pooling (syncing GPS data, etc)
    * backup (duplicity, rsync, etc)

=== Scope and Limitations ===
 * Debian is a distribution, we do not modify any packages but ship them "as they are"
 * many (if not all) user touch points are mediated through DE & WMs, which are not really in Debian's domain/scope of concern 
 * design interventions should not create a burden in the debian ecosystems, i.e. on people/developers/teams etc.