Labs/OpenDesignResearch

Open User Experience: Design and Research

Two principles to define an Open UX effort:

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

Current efforts

I: Collaborative Courses

• General Planning for collaborative courses
• University relationship
• Course 1: User Centered Design
  • Proposed Course Outline
  • All Courses

• Course 2: User Testing/Evaluation (in planning)
• Course 3: Participatory Design (in planning)

II: User Data Analysis

• Test Pilot program and its focuses:
  • User Surveys
  • Usage log data (contemporary and longitudinal)
  • A/B testing (in planning)

• Open Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization Competition-2010 - How people use Firefox: all submissions
  • Data Visualization Competition - Spring, 2011 (in planning)
  • Data Visualization Competition - Summer, 2011 (in planning)

III: Usability Check (in planning)

How could we run usability testing in the open source community?