February 3rd, 2008 Ellen Reitmayr
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 ...
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January 20th, 2008 Ellen Reitmayr
Last saturday Tim Pritlove interviewed Peter Sikking and me for Chaosradio Express, a podcast about technology and society.
In an easy-flowing disucssion, we talked about the differences between Peter's and my field of work - interaction architecture and usablity - and how we complement each other. We brought up various examples ...
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January 11th, 2008 Ellen Reitmayr
Congratulations KDE for the release of KDE 4.0!
To celebrate this event, there are several parties all around the world on January 18. In Berlin, we celebrate at the KDAB office in Kreuzberg. All friends of KDE who live in this area are welcome to join!
There will be free beer, coffee, ...
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January 6th, 2008 Ellen Reitmayr
In the scope of OpenUsability's 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 ...
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December 10th, 2007 Ellen Reitmayr
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 ...
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