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Student Applications Open for 2009 Season of Usability

Published on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Student applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Season of Usability. See the projects page for more information on how to apply.

Season of Usability 2008 Final Reports Available

Published on Saturday, October 4th, 2008

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 ...

OpenUsability at the Gnome Conference 08 (July 7-12)

Published on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Peter Sikking is going to present the work of the Open Printing project at the Gnome conference in Istanbul. What? coming to every linux desktop: next-generation printing dialogs Where? Gnome Conference, Istanbul, Turkey When? Thursday, July 10 2008. 15:30

Presentation at LinuxTag, Berlin (May 30)

Published on Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Tomorrow, Ellen Reitmayr will give a presentation (German) about Usability in KDE at Linuxtag in Berlin. What? It’s not just testing - Usability in KDE I will focus on the importance of defining the project goals and provide three principles to design good KDE applications. When? Friday, May 30. 15.00-16.00. Where? Messe Berlin, Saal ...

Call for Students - Season of Usability 2008

Published on Monday, March 17th, 2008

We are proud to announce the Season of Usability 2008, a series of projects for students of usability, user interface design, interaction design and related. We accept 10 students for design tasks, user research and UI analysis. The openings represent a wide range of applications, such as instant messaging, office suites, ...

Design and User Experience Track at Drupalconf

Published on Monday, February 11th, 2008

The next Drupalcon, the twice-yearly gathering of the content management platform Drupal, will take place in Boston from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008. A wide variety of usability issues will be discussed in the Design and User Experience Track. Major goals of the track are to attract more designers ...

Season of Usability: Call for Projects

Published on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS). During a 3 to 6 month collaboration, students work together with an experienced usability mentor and key developers of the project to improve ...