Posts in Category Season of Usability

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 ...

Season of Usability 2008 Mid-term Reports Available

Published on Monday, August 4th, 2008

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Drupal Student Project Kicked Off

Published on Sunday, January 6th, 2008

In the scope of our Season of Usability programme, another student project has just been kicked off: Bevan Rudge, a student of computer science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, is going to support the content management platform Drupal usability-wise. The major focus of this student project will be ...