OpenUsability is an initiative that promotes usability in Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) development. Today, OpenUsability is a group of people who share the same mindset of an "Open Usability": Make usability transparent, share methods and best practices, and support open source software.

Get involved!

FLOSS Projects. If you are a contributor to a FLOSS project and require usability support for your project, fill in the project application form. The OpenUsability team will come back to you and publish a project opening on our openings page.

Project application form

 

Usability Professionals. Browse the project opeings page. If you are interested to support a certain project, send us a mail to get back to us. Once you work on a project, you can document progress and successes in our blog.

Project opeings page
Why should I care?

 

Students of Usability, UI Design or related. For students, we provide a mentoring programme, the Season of Usability.

Season of Usability 2008 takes place from April to July 2008. It is kindly sponsored by

Google Inc. Open Society Institute Trolltech ASA

Season of Usability Website

 

Blog

Latest news from OpenUsability:

Season of Usability 2008 Final Reports Available
Published on October 4th, 2008

Interaction-Design.org
Published on September 8th, 2008

German Usability Professionals Conference 08
Published on September 8th, 2008

Project Opening: Exploring the Interaction Paradigm for the Game Development Toolset BZK
Published on August 21st, 2008

aKademy 2008 - Wrap Up
Published on August 16th, 2008

Project Opening: Designing the e-Press Client Nicepress
Published on August 15th, 2008

Season of Usability 2008 Mid-term Reports Available
Published on August 4th, 2008

Introducing… Tine 2.0
Published on July 16th, 2008

OpenUsability for KMyMoney
Published on July 16th, 2008

OpenUsability at the Gnome Conference 08 (July 7-12)
Published on July 1st, 2008

 

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