OpenSource Usability Labs

Only one week left to LinuxTag in Berlin (28th to 31st of May)! It is always a great event and I am looking forward to meet all the great people that are engaged in the OpenSource community! And of course I am personally happy that this event has settled in Berlin - and I do not need to travel for it anymore

Unfortunately the OpenSource Usability Labs will - this year - not have there own booth on LinuxTag. But you will find me most of the time at the Tine 2.0 booth. It is located in hall 7.2a booth no. 115.

I am very happy to get feedback on the ideas we can present up to now with Tine 2.0. Feel free to discuss the concepts in User-Interface- and User-Interaction-Design with me. As well I am looking forward to discuss any issues related to usability in OpenSource in general - be it in the scope of the OpenUsability-Initiative or a matter of the OpenSource Usability Labs.

See you on LinuxTag!

Imagine a typical production meeting: Product management, Technical engineers, marketing people and creative designers sit together and discuss what would be best to do. For whom? For the only one not involved: The user.

It is a little bit like it was back then when mum cleaned up the room and afterwards you could not find anything anymore.

We at Apliki want to change this and Metaways wants to change this too. This is why we created the OpenSource Usability Labs and why we do Usability.

They ensure the development of Tine 2.0 follows the way ISO 13407 describes the “Human-centred design processes for interactive systems”. At Tine 2.0 you and I - we - the users are integrated right into all production meetings. I believe this is a world premiere for commercially driven OpenSource production.

This is why Tine 2.0 will be the kick-ass groupware solution of the future. And take a look at the demo - isn’t it promising?