Last weekend I attended FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2013/> in Brussels.
Although FOSDEM is "renowned for being highly developer-oriented" as their
website states, there were several interesting talks for designers too:
- Alexandra Leisse presented the design process she is following with
especial emphasis on user research, prototyping, and usability testing. More
info and slides <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/userresearch/>.
- Felipe Erias emphasized the need for rapid prototyping as a means to
quickly exploring the solution space for a design problem. More info and
slides <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/sketching/>.
- Quim Gil gave a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki,
which included some design tasks for our community to get involved. More
info, slides and
video<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation>
.
- Dave Neary gave the talk "Using Personas to Target Users".
Unfortunately, the Wikimedia BoF meeting was set at the same time and I
could not attend. More
info<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/using_personas/>
- Many talks at the Mozilla dev room were related to Mobile and web
technologies such as Firefox OS (view
video<http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2013/maintracks/Janson/Firefox_OS…)m>),
latest CSS improvements (view
info<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/whats_new_in_css/>)/>),
and L10n tools among others. View list of talks from Mozilla dev
room<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/mozilla/>
.
The FOSDEM organisation is uploading the videos, so if you are interested
in any talk, keep checking the information links in the upcoming days since
the recordings will be added soon.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation