2024-03-05 –, Stage Wintergarten
There are lots of people that critique the UX of open source. Some of it is warranted but what can we DO about it? This talk will discuss which repos do UX well and what we can all learn from them.
There are strong opinions about UX and how it should fit in open source but what's clear is that one size does not fit all. How you can do proper UX (if at all) depends on the size and shape of your group. After interviewing many different repo maintainers, there is a clear pattern about which projects are better at doing UX. This talk will explain what I've found and how projects of any size can still incorporate UX into their process flow.
Scott Jenson started as a UX designer at Apple in 1988 working System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He moved to London to be Director of Symbian’s DesignLab, then back to California to manage Mobile UX at Google, then creative director for frog design. Headed up design for two startups and eventually returned to Google to work on the Physical Web project and Android UX research. Now semi-retired.