I'm glad to see this post. Drupal is a good example. Until recently, Drupal was largely built with little help from folks like us. The founder, Dries Buytaert, however is a strong believer in usability and experience and managed to get Drupal formally tested twice in lab setting. Given the poor test reults, the community is rallying around becoming more usable and organizing itself. groups.drupal/org/usability is a fine example. Folks in this channel and various IRC channels come together to build better designs - and engineers are begining to shift towards these channels for advice. These channels are essentiall the virtual agency you speak of - but are Drupal specific.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Tom Coombs <t...@manwomanandchild.com>wrote: > I've been thinking about the open source movement. > > I know very little of the UX community's involvement, so firstly I'm > posting > to ask what has been happening so far. Mozilla, Open Office and some > others > must have had serious UX involvement. Secondly, if it doesn't already > exist, I wonder if there's the potential for us to structure some kind of > virtual agency that would allow us to engage effectively. > > Few thoughts > > - In my opinion, several OS projects are incredible achievements that are > hampered by small usability problems or even just language issues. I > really > believe in the movement. I think some corners of it need our help. > > - UX involvement, unlike coder involvement, might be more effective if the > people weren't aligned to a single project, so maybe the movement doesn't > naturally structure itself to include us. > > - Be a good way to spread the UX word, and a good way for us to > collaborate > and learn from each other. Might be especially useful for people trainign > in UX. Maybe meetings like the book club but instead the topic is an open > source project that everyone's looked in advance. > > Any thoughts? Knowledge of UX involvement so far? > > Tom > > > > > > > ........................................... > Tom Coombs > http://www.manwomanandchild.com > +44 (0) 7968 151198 > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
