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Season of Usability - Projects Kicked Off

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

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 ...

Call for Students - Season of Usability 2008

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I am 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

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

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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 ...

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 ...