OpenUsability for Students

OpenUsability for Students

OpenUsability's mentored student projects are an excellent way for usability, user-interface design, and interaction design students to gain experience in the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects.

See the official website for further information.

Season of Usability

Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Freee/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects.

Inspired by Google's Summer of Code™, OpenUsability joined up with FLOSS Usability, Aspiration and the Open Society Institute to offer a number of sponsored student projects. Other than the Google projects that address developers, they aim at students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design. Students will experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into OSS development.

The idea of the student projects is to establish a close collaboration between the student, a key developer from the software project (technical mentor) and a usability mentor. Students learn how to develop design solutions in agreement with the whole team to learn how to obtain solution-oriented results. During a three-month cooperation, students will closely work together with experienced professionals and get insights in to their way of work.

The first Season of Usability took place from November 2006 to June 2007. Five student projects were successfully accomplished, including Basket, GeexBox, Open Printing, Okular and OpenWengo.

Progress and results of the student projects are summarised on the official Season of Usability website.