Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Call for Projects has been closed.
We want to thank all FLOSS projects that applied. The usability mentors will get in touch with you.
The Season of Usability 2008 Project Openings will be published in March. Stay tuned!
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
The next Drupalcon, the twice-yearly gathering of the content management platform Drupal, will take place in Boston from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008.
A wide variety of usability issues will be discussed in the Design and User Experience Track. Major goals of the track are to attract more designers ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Riddhima J. Shelat has been selected for the Open Printing student project announced in December (>> project opening).
From February 1st Riddhima will work for at least 3 months, 15 hours a week as an associate interaction architect on this project. Lead architect and mentor on the project is Peter Sikking, ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Apart from Open Printing, a second "off-the-season" Season of Usability project has formed up:
Bevan Rudge, a student of computer science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, is going to support the developers of the content management platform Drupal usability-wise. His major focus will be user interface improvements for the ...
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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. Depending on your location, you will ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
We are looking for practitioners of usability, user-interface design, interaction design and related to take over a Season of Usability Mentorship.
Job Description
A Season of Usability project usually takes 3 months. The goal is to get students of usability, user-interface design or interaction design involved with FLOSS applications to improve their ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
This site will be the official website of the Season of Usability - an initiative to get students of usability, user interface design and interaction design involved with Open Source projects.
The site will be officially published on November 1st 2007.
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