---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Jadud <[email protected]> Date: 12 September 2010 23:04 Subject: Students exploring user interface design To: Matthew Jadud <[email protected]>
Hello all, I will keep my note brief. I'm writing you because you, or a colleague of yours, responded to my call regarding usability/interaction design[1]. I've tried to capture all of your projects in a list[2], and have done my best to (briefly) write something about your projects. I want to say that I am overwhelmed by the number of responses I received, and from so many projects that I am familiar with in one form or another. I'm very excited about the opportunities your projects represent for the students. The students are currently engaging in their first UI design and testing project, which involves student involvement with the Fedora Design community surrounding their pending website redesign. The students don't *really* know what they're doing yet, and Máirín Duffy and the websites team were kind enough to let the students use this as an opportunity to skin their knees a bit and learn what the whole UI design/test process looks like. As I've heard some FOSS practitioners say, the students are learning to be "productively lost." While they're doing that, they're reading Norman, Cooper, Snyder, and other resources, delving more deeply into the cognitive and practical aspects of UI design. They're going to be looking at all of your projects over the coming week, and will likely begin contacting some of you next week to ask questions and express interest in working with you. In short, this note is a "heads up" as to what we've been up to, and where we're going next. I'm sorry I didn't write sooner, but I've been doing a lot of community interaction/bridging myself these past two weeks. The students are engaged, and the knowledge that they will be working with real projects has, I think, really focused their efforts so far. Please feel free to ask me questions. Mostly, I think you can continue to "sit back" and wait for students to come your way. So, again: thank you! Cheers, Matt PS. Given that we only have 10 students in the class, the fact is that we won't be able to work with most of the projects that responded. That said, I'm going to push to see if I can get this course cross-listed with our Psychology department, and perhaps get it to run more often. Or, perhaps I'll look at ways I can do something that blends our local instruction with P2PU. Either way, it is clear that there are a lot of great opportunities to introduce students to open communities around the theme of usability. [1] http://www.sububi.org/2010/08/18/free-interaction-design-for-your-open-source-project/ [2] http://rockalypse.org/courses/cmpsc303f10/projects/ [3] http://wiki.rockalypse.org/HCD -- Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
