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Revision as of 18:14, 14 April 2008

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About

This page focuses only on the http://eclipse.org/higgins page and a few other things that we could get done by Friday the 19th. For a complete list of what we'd like to get done someday on the wiki/site see: Website and Wiki Backlog.

Problems to Address

Even after the work that went into improving the Higgins website/wiki prior to the feb release of 1.0, we continue to get feedback that the site is:

  1. Lack of "integrity". It is confusingly mixed in with the rest of the Eclipse site. Most folks think Eclipse site is about IDE enhancements/plugins. We get comments like "that purple stuff isn't helping the Higgins cause". In reality that "purple stuff" helps Higgins enormously in various ways. But the Higgins website isn't one of them. Folks think that a project of the size and importance of Higgins should have its own site. Should be perceived of as standing on its own. They hear about Higgins, come to the site and then think "oh I must be mistaken, this looks like an IDE plugin. I wasn't looking for an IDE plugin".
  2. The http://eclipse.org/higgins home page is not professionally designed. It is critical that AT LEAST the home page be well designed and communicate well
    1. Part of the problem is the highly constraining Eclipse "phoenix" look and feel
    2. Part of the problem is our lack of concise, clear text and imagery

The Plan

  1. Develop new homepage text & imagery. Implement immediately while we wait for #2 below.
  2. Develop a new Higgins look & feel (hire outside design firm) and apply to the new content from #1

New Home Page Content

The following IS the new home page content:

  • Creating a user-centered identity layer for the Internet.
  • This layer will allow you to:
    • Collect electronic "information cards" (i-cards) that hold profiles, preferences, interests, favorite songs, employee id, you name it, about yourself or your friends
    • Create your own cards
    • Use these cards to instantly log on to websites with a couple clicks. No more passwords, no more filling in forms
    • Share these cards with friends and businesses that you trust
    • Hold these cards in an electronic walled called an "selector"

Higgins-vision-illustration-v4.PNG

Click on the colored boxes above to learn more about each of the Higgins building blocks.

A little more about the identity layer

  • Higgins is a protocol-agnostic implementation project. We implement and integrate into a seamless user experience any and all protocols and data formats as the market demands. Higgins is consists of an extensible identity and user data framework. It provides the abstraction layer to unify heterogeneous data sources within the information card metaphor.

Notes

  • The above image is just a placeholder. We'll hire an illustrator to make it engaging and fun and beautiful. Preferably Tim Nihoff (the same illustrator who created the Higgins mouse)
  • I think we should add hot spots to the image to allow you to drill in on each Higgins solution. And maybe each could also have a popup?
  • We need to decide what other things belong on the home page, and where. Today's home page is too boring and not well organized:
    • News
    • Events
    •  ??

New Home Page Design/Layout/Fonts

  • What is the plan?

Changes to other pages

Solutions Page

  • See existing Solutions page
  • The solutions page will continue to mix together on one page both 1.0 and 1.1 solutions.
  • RP solution
  • IdP solutions
    • STS IdP solution (1.0)
    • SAML2 IdP solution (1.0)
  • Selector solutions 1.0+ <-- user-centric "controller"/"browser" component
    • FF-embedded Selector (1.0)
    • Adobe AIR Selector (1.1)
    • GTK & Cocoa Selector (1.0)
    • RCP Selector (1.0)
    • Selector Selector (1.1)
  • IdAS client solution (1.1)
  • IdAS server solution (1.1)
  • XDJ4J solution

Data Model Page

  • Existing Data Model page
  • Proposal:
    • Change "Higgins Global Graph" to "Core IdAS model"
    • Change the rest of the data model to "Peripheral model" or something like that

Done

The following problems have already been addressed:

  1. Develop a consistent approach to managing the wiki pages for different Higgins version (e.g. 1.0 vs. 1.1 content)
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