FOSS Backstage 2024

Usability Clinic 🛈
2024-03-05 –, Lobby

Are you an open source maintainer? We provide free (as in free beer) design support for your project, including UI, UX and User Research. Talk to us in person and receive pro-bono design support at the event and after!


Are you an open source maintainer? We provide free (as in free beer) design support for your project, including UI, UX and User Research. Talk to us in person and receive pro-bono design support at the event and after!

What we can help with:

Discovering:
At the start of the project we can help explore with you the problem space and find potential pathways to help you ask the right questions. This can include understanding your audience, designing for the right audience or figuring out potential user journeys for new features.

Refactoring:
You have a technically working solution but need some support with tidying up, regardless if it’s information architecture or layout. We can support you with some design housekeeping without relying on major design changes.

Auditing:
You have a working solution and need to test and audit it for potential shortcomings. We do conduct UX heuristics evaluations as well as accessibility audits (web, mobile or desktop).

Refreshing:
Communicating technical feasibility as part of a visual identity can prove to be difficult. We work with you to ensure your project can communicate its values efficiently.

Implementing:
We specialize in supporting to shape your product with frontend implementation, accessibility considerations, as well quality assurance.

More information: https://ura.design/probono

🛈 This session won't be recorded and participation is only possible onsite.

User experience designer at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading open source operating system. Also founded Ura Design, a small open source design startup that provides design services and support to fellow open source projects.

In the past Elio has been working for Mozilla, Tor Project, The University of Michigan as well the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Marit is works as UX Lead with Ura Design. With 12 years of exprience in digital product, and organisational discovery, design and development, she identifies with being a facilitator, designer, product lead and thought leader. Her topics are responsible tech, collaborative process design and ethical UX design.