Increasing the human element in open source software
summary
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 repo on GitHub, downloadable personas and jobs-to-be-done templates in Figma, regular community meetings twice a month, yearly usability and accessibility audits, card-sorting and tree-testing, and a project to surface GitHub metrics as user insights. Claim: systematic, ongoing research yields baseline accessibility plus targeted curated experiences for both low-code and high-code users.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:29Personal journey and crisis
- 3:13Open source design challenges
- 6:03Designers in open source today
- 7:51Human vs digital experience
- 10:18Career evolution and AI impact
- 12:03User-centered research in open source
- 13:26Open search product development
- 16:18Research and community engagement
- 18:44From feature focus to user experience
- 20:29Call to action for designers
- 21:11Closing and resources
- 21:33Q&A session
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