Hi all, I'm asking my friends designers to join this group and help us shape the user experience of FreedomBox. The message I'm sending them is more or less the following. If you know user experience designers, feel free to adapt the text below when you contact them.
Cheers, stef Dear <name> At the FreedomBox Foundation, we're developing a new generation of software-powered devices to enable private communications between citizens around the world -- and we need the eyes and expertise of User eXperience people to make it happen. Think of all the people who don't have the luxury of freedom of speech and all the dissidents whose list of friends is the best way for a government to shut down a revolution before it even starts. We want to give them an *easy to use* tool that allows citizens to be safe online. Our emphasis on the ease of use is because most of the basic tech tools to achieve the goal already exist, but their wider use and adoption is limited by their complexity. This is a social problem with a technological solution, it's a new territory and we're at the very early stages of defining how the FreedomBox will reach its goals. We're looking for user experience gurus to help us define how normal people can browse the Internet safely, without sharing their information with entities that are not supposed to be seeing who they talk to, where they go and what they're saying to each other. These people need your experience and your ideas to drive the design of FreedomBox and make sure that ease of use is always the priority. Can you join the conversation by signing up and participating in our mailing list? http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss Please contact me directly if you have questions, concerns or comments. thanks in advance, _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss