Labs/ConceptSeries/StudentOutreach
What is Student Outreach?
It's a Mozilla Labs Concept Series channel to give industry related experience exposure to students at global institutions - via co-created and collaborative Design (UX, UCD, HCI, IxD) courses.
We aim to directly work together to propose and structure a engaging course module that’s relevant to the institutions own goals, interests and timing schedules.
Full support will be provided during the duration of the course including community feedback, guest lectures and mentor appearances throughout the project.
Types of Courses
Various globally located institutions are already collaborating with us. Some of the course types presently offered include:
- User Centered Design (UCD)
- Participatory Design
- User Testing/Evaluation
- Design Jams
Institutions
- Ashesi College (Astrid Larssen) - Accra, Ghana
- Bauhaus University (Jens Geelhaar) - Weimar, Germany
- University of Southern Denmark (Jacob Buur) - Sønderborg, Denmark
- University of Sydney (Martin Tomisch) - Sydney, Australia
From an institution? Want to collaborate with us?
Please get in touch:
Desigan Chinniah - cyberdees(at)mozilla(dot)com
Jinghua Zhang - jzhang(at)mozilla(dot)com>
Pascal Finette - pfinette(at)mozilla(dot)com
Topics
2011 Topics
- Mobile - Intersections between potential user needs and evolving technologies.
- Tablet - Multi-touch interaction, gestural interface design for controlling web activities.
- Apps - Apps for mobile is a well-known way to interact with the Web; anything bigger than that?
- HomeDash - Are people buried among all tabs, pages, histories and notifications? How a browser can help people manage that?
- Do It For Me - Make your favorite web activity easy to do, across all websites!
See full proposed topics for 2011
2010 Topics
- Designing for Social - How do online social networks affect people’s personal and professional lives? What problems, both known and unknown, do people have with current ways of online social networking? What opportunities exist for us to make things better?
Useful Resources & Links
- Bauhaus University class embarking on open Interaction Design (Blog - 2010/11/09)
- University of Sydney students mash up UX & Open Design (Blog - 2010/12/02)
- User Centered Design in the Open @ The University of Sydney (Blog - 2010/12/02)
- Update on Bauhaus Universities ‘Open Interaction Design’ course (Blog - 2011/01/25)
- Mentors, Eric Reiss & Søren Muus (FatDUX) visit the Bauhaus (Blog - 2011/02/10)
- Eric Reiss' Web Dogma at Bauhaus University (Talk - 2011/02/10)