OpenUsability

OpenUsability is a project to help usability experts coordinate with open source software projects to improve the software's interaction and usability. They have worked with projects such as GIMP and KDE.

History

OpenUsability was originally a thought that developed at the KDE developers conference in 2003 after a comparison of usability in Windows XP and KDE 3.1 was performed. Open source projects were able to register with OpenUsability from 2004 onwards.[1]

Examples
OpenPrinting
OpenPrinting is a project to increase the quality of printing on Linux Desktops. The user interaction and interface has been designed by members of the OpenUsability project.[2]
GIMP
An interaction design team has been formed for GIMP, the lead developer of GIMP Sven Neumann originally applied to OpenUsability.

Season of Usability

Season of Usability is a series of sponsored design projects for students, in order to get them involved in FLOSS projects.[3]

gollark: Not one of the ones we're using.
gollark: -0 inflation units.
gollark: Great, done.
gollark: We'll send you 1982571 trillion capital if you agree to rotate 8 of our bees by 0.06 radians.
gollark: Just make time?

See also

References
  1. OpenUsability Project. "About". Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  2. The Linux Foundation. "OpenPrinting". Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  3. OpenUsability Project. "Season of Usability". Retrieved 2011-06-30.


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