Season of Usability 2006/2007

2007.01.27

I’ve had no formal training in interaction design, information architecture or usability (not many card-carrying IxDs do anyway, let alone grasshoppers like us). I’m very lucky to gain a certain amount of practical insight through the work we do at Vesess, but that hardly makes up for the lack of theoretical knowledge. That’s one of the reasons why I’m really excited about being selected for the Season of Usability 2006/2007.

I’ll be working on the project to design an easy-to-use blog editor for Serendipity. My usability mentor is Ellen Reitmayr the usability-fu, and the technical mentor is Garvin Hicking, a lead developer of Serendipity. We’ve already had our initial discussion, and are currently planning a user survey to collect the major use cases for casual blogging with s9y. If what I learned from that one hour of a meeting is anything to go by, this program is going to be wonderfully educational, and fun.

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  1. Robert Lender

    January 28th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    I´ve read with great interest about your project and I´m very interested to help making S9y much better as it is (and it is a very good blogsystem).
    If I can help, let me know.

  2. Prabhath

    January 28th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Thanks Robert :-) We’re still in the early days, but I’ll definitely get in touch with you as we develop a plan and make progress.