2009/1/19 Jon Bolt <[email protected]>: > Hi > > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction in > terms of contact information or resources related to usability and the > Ubuntu desktop. > > I want to start contributing my user experience expertise to the Ubuntu > community. Currently I work for a user experience consultancy as a > usability analyst, although my background is in software development. > > Although I will have to okay it with my employer, I would like to start > working with different projects under the Ubuntu or Gnome umbrella. I > have experience in using a wide variety of usability techniques, both in > academic and commercial environments. > > So if anyone would like to point me in the way of contacts that would be > great. Additionally, if any project developers would like me to > collaborate with them, please let me know. > > Kind Regards > > Jon Bolt > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
It's a shame no one responded to your email. Usabillity is something we really need to focus on. Perhaps re-send your above email to ubuntu-devel-discuss to see if any of the devs point you in the right direction. Jono Bacon made a call for ideas on better facilitating usability contributions on his blog a while back, but we haven't really seen anything come of it. Right now, the only way I can see to contribute usability experience to Ubuntu is to submit specific usability bugs to individual projects (i.e. just a regular bug-report about a usability issue you've identified), is that a framework you feel you could contribute through? How better could projects implement usability development? Thanks, Alex -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
