Home About Me Blog

Archive for 2007

Season of Usability Project Opening: Linux Printing

Monday, December 10th, 2007

The Linux Foundation sponsors a student of usability, user interface design, interaction design or related to work as an Associate Interaction Architect to shape the printing experience on Linux. The goal is to create a detailed design and UI spec for 7 types of printers; project work will start in the ...

Season of Usability - Usability Mentors Needed

Friday, November 30th, 2007

We have started the organisational work for the next Season of Usability which will happen in Summer 2008. Currently, we are looking for usability mentors. To apply for a mentorship, please see the full job description on the Season of Usability website. From the Job Description Each student is supervised by two ...

World Usability Day 2007 - November 8

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The third World Usability Day "Making life easy" is on November 8. All around the world, there will be events to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. In Berlin, there will be an all-day event at Heinrich-Hertz-Institut. We set ...

Season of Usability - Website Published

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I spent the last weeks to summarise the results of the Season of Usability on a website and published it today: First Season of Usability finished successfully! 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 Freee/Libre/Open-Source ...

Usability Stammtisch Berlin: Community Interaction Patterns (Wed, Sept 12)

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Carsten Grandke is going to introduce us to interaction patterns for online communities. When? Wednesday (September 12), 19.30 Where? Newthinking Store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte From the programme (German): "Alle Communitites sind anders. Trotzdem hat fast jede ähnliche Grundanforderungen: Innen/Außendarstellung, Registrierung, Rollen, Aktivität, Ranking, Kontakte, Content-Rating, usw. Jenseits von radikaler Neuentwicklung und inspiriertem Abkupfern ...