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Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan
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Started this discussion. Last reply by peter sikking Jan 25.

Project Verity - Another open design project

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Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Open Design Project

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peter sikking replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan'
OK, that is a relief. I see now that she wrote the linked post. I am curious how this the challenge approach is going to work out. I can see the point of having experts working on interesting chunks, but the work needs to be aligned with major, lon…
January 25
Leisa Reichelt replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan'
Jane Wells is heading up the UX effort for Wordpress via Automattic. As far as I can tell she's both competent and doing a pretty ace job.
January 25
peter sikking replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan'
hmmm, does anybody know if there is already a competent interaction/usability person overlooking the revamp work at wordpress? or is this an example of the inmates still running the asylum, when developers/maintainers do the selection of the bite-…
January 25
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Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan
very excited to see the Wordpress team are looking at ways to further open up their design process - take a look at the post here. 
January 25
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Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Open Design Project
have you seen this yet? http://passfail.squarespace.com/ it's not really an 'official' design project but is a really nice example of a bunch of designers jumping in to try to solve, together, a widespread design problem - the incredibly poor design…
January 15
Calum Benson replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Introductions!'
I'm Calum Benson. I've been an interaction designer at Sun for Sun Microsystems in Dublin, Ireland for the past ten years or so, working primarily on Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris desktop products, and in the open source GNOME community on whose sof…
January 6
peter sikking replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Debriefing a design project with an open source community - ideas?'
Hi Leisa, I thought about this for a while, here is what I came up with. At GIMP there is a limited community of contributors (two dozen in total, a dozen really constantly contributing) so I would run the debriefing on the developer mailing list…
January 6
Tim Sheiner replied to Leisa Reichelt's discussion 'Introductions!'
Hello. I'm Tim Sheiner. I work for Jaspersoft as User Experience Architect. My background is physical product design/mechanical engineering, but I made the decision to work in software the instant I saw the Mosaic browser back in 1995. I have had d…
January 4
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Designing Accessibility Into Themes

Thanks to Ann McMeakin for allowing us to cross post this awesome reference from www.d7ux.org - I'm sure it will be helpful to designers across all open source projects!

I tried to post the full text version here in HTML but there is a bit of code in the document that Ning does not play well with so ( go download the PDF here or check out the… Continue

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 5:52pm — 1 Comment

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Calling all Open Source Designer & User Experience People

If you’re doing design & user experience work in an open source community, then chances are we have a lot in common – no matter what community we’re working in. We have some big challenges every day, but we also know that if we can overcome those challenges we can make a really big contribution to the sustainability and increased popularity of open source software.

The purpose of this site is to create a space where we can come together to share our experiences, to ask each other questions,… Continue

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