Labs/Course/UCD/planning

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Two principles to define an Open UX effort

1. All work is shared under CC licenses
2. Encouraging participation

Key elements for a successful collaborative course

• Apply UX techniques in the course that both the faculty and the community are interested

• Select a course topic that both the design community and Mozilla will be interested and benefited.

• Create a environment to encourage easy participation:
  • a place to share students work
  • a template for organizing students outcome
  • a panel that could give targeted feedback (e.g. UX professionals, industry insights, technology trends, etc.)
  • ways to allow panel or public feedback (within or beyond the course itself)

Other useful details

• If the course involves user research, make sure user privacy is well protected. Use Mozilla User Study Release Form if needed.

• If it is important to get consistent exposures for the course, have a UX media follow up the course from the beginning. (Johnny Holland might be interested)

• To maximize the value of course outcome, define a product team that could potentially pair up with the course at the first, and be clear with what kind of outcome they are interested.