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Community Resources

Fluid Wiki: collaborative documentation, technical architecture information, and user experience material for the Fluid Project.
Fluid Blog: learn more about the progress of Fluid directly from members of our community.
Mailing Lists: join our community; ask questions, learn about the project, and get involved.
Issue Tracking: report bugs to the Fluid team.
Source Code: download Fluid's source code

Fluid is hiring!
We are hiring a Web User Interface Developer. Expertise includes JavaScript, Web standards, CSS, and HTML. If you want to be part of an agile team contributing to the usability and accessibility of open source software, please drop us a line.

User Experience

A critical component of the Fluid project is the task of effecting systemic changes within the community source software projects and establishing a viable process for embedding user experience design, knowledge and consciousness into the community development cycle. Without this, the project’s technical developments will not be successfully adopted or implemented. You can track the user experience work as it progresses and get involved by joining our mailing lists.

Research

Survey of successful open source user experience practices
Summary reports regarding status of UX in participating projects
Identify and confirm existing technology barriers to be addressed in each project
Establish a UX baseline through project usability evaluations
Perform user interviews, interaction design research, and field studies

Design

Develop and share a repository of personas and other design models
Creation of a user interface design patterns library
Design of the Fluid components and personalization user interfaces

Testing

Usability and accessibility testing
Virtual Usability Lab (VULab) remote user testing

Education & Outreach

Educate communities about UX capacity, needs and roles:
1. U-Camps
2. Board Representation
3. Online forums and UX updates
4. Conference presentations, panels and workshops
Recruit UX participation in community source projects
Publicize Fluid project and recruit further participation