OpenUsability

OpenUsability is a project to help usability experts coordinate with open source software projects to improve the software's interaction and usability. They have worked with projects such as GIMP and KDE.

History
OpenUsability was originally a thought that developed at the KDE developers conference in 2003 after a comparison of usability in Windows XP and KDE 3.1 was performed.  Open source projects were able to register with OpenUsability from 2004 onwards.

Examples
OpenPrinting
OpenPrinting is a project to increase the quality of printing on Linux Desktops.  The user interaction and interface has been designed by members of the OpenUsability project.

GIMP
An interaction design team has been formed for GIMP, the lead developer of GIMP Sven Neumann originally applied to OpenUsability.

Season of Usability
Season of Usability is a series of sponsored design projects for students, in order to get them involved in FLOSS projects.

See also
Usability
Interaction design

References

External links
 Official website
 (OpenUsability) 2007 Success Stories; Ellen Reitmayr (1 January 2008)

Category:Usability
Category:Human–computer interaction