FOSS Backstage Design 2024
2024-03-06
Berlin, Germany
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Designers as Multifaceted Contributors | Victory Brown | 20m |
Starts as a nontechnical contributor who learns HTML/CSS, experiments with JavaScript, then pivots into design and builds a ux interview guide used by… | ||
| Increasing the human element in open source software | Aparna Sundar | 23m |
Open Source project moves from feature-first to user-centered design by building public assets and processes: a public open search research repo and design… | ||
| Devs in mind: how to design interfaces for developer tools | Anton Lovchikov | 21m |
Design principles focus on developer productivity not conversion: split workflows into immediate, intermediate, broad context and optimize each with concrete… | ||
| The Power of UX Heuristics in Open Source Projects | Christopher Hunter | 20m |
Claims that Jakob Nielson’s 1994 heuristics are a research-backed, cost‑effective shortcut for diagnosing usability problems and reducing the need for full AB… | ||
| Stewarding Usability for Humanitarian OSS | Katie Wilson, Abhishek Sharma | 19m |
Case study of Bayanat (Syria Justice and Accountability Centre) uses a two‑year, funder‑mandated program of quarterly surveys and per‑feature tests to track… | ||
| A user-centric (r)evolution | Nuna Dionísio | 17m |
Started 2022 building DBaaS in PMM without a designer, discovery shows heavy usability problems, duplication and maintenance headaches caused by reliance on… | ||
| Designing UIs without a UI designer | Gleb Stroganov | 14m |
Argues that teams build UI directly in code to move faster, citing multiple client MVPs that started as coded prototypes and were later discarded by designers… | ||
| The power of adding a story to your demo | René Kriegler | 17m |
Small libraries for query rewriting, rating and evaluation get tied together into an open source demo called Chorus demo shop that runs an online store showing… | ||
| Building the Holodeck: XR for Designers | Samira Gibson | 20m |
XR is close to mainstream but still dev-dominated; practical entry points and a working prototype matter. A memory-placement app wins MIT Reality Hack 2023… | ||
| Re-thinking product adoption through documentation design | Pedro Fernandes | 24m |
Argues that the fastest way to boost adoption for 17 open-source database products is redesigning the docs rather than refactoring core software, and reports… | ||
| Building an Open Source Community Beyond the Code | Carolina Alves Portugal, Elena Alcalde | 19m |
Penpot positions community as the product’s growth engine: an 35-person core team coordinates transparent roadmaps and public feedback channels, the community… | ||
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