For today’s October call, I can share how I’ve been bringing design principles and practices into the Scientific Python space
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Hosted NumPy Newcomers Design Jam
- Getting feedback from newcomers in a fun, interactive way
- Introducing user research concepts, cite Belen’s “No design without research – Why and how to incorporate design research practices into our free software projects”
- Reporting results back to Github- bringing design workflow to developer platforms
- Share results, discuss next steps with NumPy maintainers in community call
- Host 30 minute Design Jams in other projects?
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Comics as Scientific Communication within and beyond academia
- Comics as short, understanding summaries of research software
- Highlight communities in open source (such as OSD) as integral to starting contributing
- Keynote with Research Software Engineers (RSE) Asia Australia Unconference
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Comics as “design” to talk about “Design”
- Using illustrations to talk about infrastructure (software infrastructure and user experience)
- Similarities and Differences in bringing design to Scientific Open Source vs Open Source Healthcare
- Talk at GoInvo
