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platformOS Documentation and UX Status Report — Sep 23, 2019

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In this week’s status report: Town Hall #66 presentation about platformOS winning the UK Technical Communication Award, plus research, updates, fixes, and tasks in progress.
platformOS Documentation and UX Status Report — Sep 23, 2019

Town Hall #66: platformOS wins UKTC Award 

Watch our latest Town Hall to learn more about our journey to winning the UKTC Award, including the application process, this year’s judges, the feedback we received, the award ceremony, and the main factors that contributed to our win. 


Documentation 

Content production

Improvements, fixes


UX

Research - Onboarding process

First of all, we’d like to thank those who participated in our remote usability test sessions.  

During the usability study, we asked the users to do several short tasks using a prototype of the planned onboarding process built with Figma. We used both moderated and unmoderated techniques, and conducted extra tests with pOS team members to verify the represented business, technical, content goals. 

Moderated remote usability test: the three participants interacted with the prototype while they completed the tasks for the test. This test type is suitable when we’d like to check complex tasks that do not have a structured sequence of steps or where more interaction and questioning will benefit testing.

Unmoderated remote usability test: the three participants worked through tasks presented via an online platform without the need for a moderator to be present. URUT is designed to measure how satisfied a user is with the interface of the product. The other benefit is that participants work through tasks in their usual environment in a less artificial process. 

As a next step, we update the onboarding flow based on the results, and run a follow-up usability test session with a few new participants.



Design and Development 

  • NEW Partner Portal - Design System: Buttons, process bar, notifications, tooltips.
  • NEW Rolling out the new SSL/DNS automation
  • NEW Data import rebuild in background
  • NEW Images: webp was added as whitelisted image format
  • NEW Silence progress logging during data import
  • NEW Add liquid syntax validation to all notifications attributes (body, to, delay etc.)
  • NEW Graphql: fetch boolean property by name; return null when wrong type
  • IN REVIEW Tag functionality for instances to make it possible grouping instances based on your needs.
  • IN REVIEW Check OAuth2 token with PartnerPortal
  • IN PROGRESS Remove uploaded module from Partner Portal
  • IN PROGRESS Add content length validation to presigned url
  • IN PROGRESS Verify manifest validity after deploy
  • IN PROGRESS API includes info about created/updated/removed records of the DNS Zone
  • IN PROGRESS Parse_json messing quotes in strings
  • IN PROGRESS Set response status from liquid


Release Notes

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note, Sep 23, 2019

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