To Do or Not To Do: Usability in Open Source Development

Lene Nielsen; Mads Bødker

To Do or Not To Do: Usability in Open Source Development

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Abstract

During 2006 we launched a project that initially aimed at improving the usability of the Open Source Software (OSS) content management system TYPO3 (see box). The main aim of the project was to improve the user friendliness of a forthcoming iteration of the system by introducing usability concepts to the developer community. This proved to be quite a challenge and looking back we found three areas that prevented the inclusion of usability perspectives in the development process: the OSS community’s ‘culture of doing’, the OSS ideology, and finally our role as researchers which emphasised differences in understandings of praxis.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Interfaces
Vol/bind	71
Sider (fra-til)	10-11
Antal sider	2
ISSN	1351-119X
Status	Udgivet - 2007
Udgivet eksternt	Ja

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