Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
The Season of Usability 2010 is currently being prepared. Please stay tuned for updates!
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
OpenUsability 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 month collaboration, students work together with an experienced usability mentor and key developers of the project to improve the ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Between May and September 2008, the second Season of Usability took place -
All in all 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 ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
This project focused on designing a system of interaction for the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop with limited input methods.
Along with mentors Mentors Eben Eliason and Marco Gritti, Alessandro Vona, student of Science in Communications, analyzed different handheld interaction models to come up with an interaction design for the ...
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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 on for a short wrap up of what have been achieved so far.
Redesigning DrProject's Administration ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
We are happy to announce that the remaining student positions have been filled and the Season of Usability 2008 is fully kicked off:
Improving HDR imaging with Qtpfsgui
Student intern:
Vladimir Smida, student of computer graphics
Mentors:
Roman Bednarik, usability mentor
Giuseppe Rota, technical mentor
Alexandre Prokoudine, technical mentor
Vladimir will optimise workflows and improve the usability of ...
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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. We proudly present the team setup for the Season of Usability 2008.
With a total of 130 applications, selecting a student was not an easy process for our mentors ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
We thank all students who applied for the Season of Usability 2008. The usability mentors will come back to you during the next days.
Student selection will be finished on May 15 - stay tuned!
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Three days left to apply for this year's Season of Usability!
Have a look at the project openings and send us your application till April, 14.
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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, ...
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