Four weeks after the Call for Students has been finished, most of the Season of Usability mentors have selected their student intern.

With a total of 130 applications, selecting a student was not an easy process for our mentors - and a clear indication for us that we need to provide more projects in 2009! Usability professionals who are interested to participate as a mentor are welcome to contact me.

Celeste and me are mentoring two KDE projects. For Human Interface Guidelines and Design Patterns for KDE, we got two student interns: Becca Scollan, student of Science in Information, and Thomas Pfeiffer, student of Psychology. They will do their best to complete the KDE Human Interface Guidelines and define interaction paradigms for the most common design patterns used in KDE.

For the Toolbox and Palette Interaction for KOffice project, Neha Pahwa, student of Information Technology, will analyse the interaction paradigm of four core applications of the KOffice suite, KWord, KPresenter,the image manipulation application Krita, and the vector graphics application Karbon. As a first step, Neha will interview the developers to identify the major project goals and target users.

We will document the progress in our blogs. Stay tuned!