Published on April 29th, 2009 by celeste
Student applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Season of Usability. See the projects page for more information on how to apply.
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Published on October 4th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
Between May and September 2008, the second Season of Usability took place - all in all a great success!
Ten students contributed to nine F/OSS projects by doing user research, usability analysis or UI mockups. All projects were finished successfully - in average, the teams fulfilled 80% of their initial project ...
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Published on September 8th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
At the UP08, I came across this interesting usability resource based on the CC license:
www.interaction-design.org
What is Interaction-Design.org?
So far, this website features the beginnings of a free, open-content, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields. ...
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Published on September 8th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
Ellen Reitmayr is going to talk about the Season of Usability at the Usability Professionals' 08 conference in Luebeck, Germany. She will point out the importance of mentoring processes for Young Usability Professionals and show some results from this year's Season of Usability.
What? Season of Usability. Studenten sammeln Erfahrung in ...
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Published on August 21st, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
About. The BZK toolset is a set of tools to help creating games for mobile devices. Graphics are simple but enough to create good games. This suit maybe not be suitable for very intensive games or near-photorealistic graphics.
Project Page. www.sf.net/projects/bzk
Target Audience. Most likely: Game designers creating their next mobile ...
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Published on August 16th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
Celeste Lyn Paul, Ellen Reitmayr and Peter Sikking from the OpenUsability team attended this year's developer summit of the K Desktop Environment that took place from August 9 to 14 in Mechelen, Belgium.
During the conference program, Peter Sikking introduced the KDE community to his work regarding common printing dialogs for ...
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Published on August 15th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
About. Nicepress is an e-press client that provides news in a fast and easy manner. It aggregates different news sources and presents them in a desktop applet. The project is on its half way to alpha state.
Project Page. code.google.com/p/nicepress
Target Audience. In its first version, nicepress targets at rather ...
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Published on August 4th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
The Season of Usability 2008 makes good progress - as students and mentors have stated by the end of July, most of the projects have reached 50% or more of their initial project goals.
Read a short wrap up of what have been achieved so far in the Season of ...
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Published on July 16th, 2008 by bjoern
I would like to introduce a new project to you: Tine 2.0 - a bleeding edge groupware project that runs in your web browser. Tine 2.0 combines classical groupware functionality with CRM and ERP focussing on ease of use.
We do not directly support this project through OpenUsability, because it has ...
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Published on July 16th, 2008 by Ellen Reitmayr
KMyMoney is a personal finance managing software for Linux targeting private end users who are seeking to quit usage of Microsoft-Windows and are looking for a personal finance manager like Quicken or MS Money.
Aiming to improve the usability of their software, the KMyMoney developers filled in the OpenUsability project application ...
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