Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra

05/13/22 • 62 min

Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more people than at the Wikimedia Foundation. On this ep Abbey joins us to talk about what human-centered design research means, methodologies for conducting user-experience studies in a wide range of territories and contexts, designing products for billions of people, some of the ways design and research differ in open source versus the corporate world, and more.

SHOW NOTES

Find out more about Abbey's current work at: https://wearetrimtab.com/

And read about the research she conducted at the Wikimedia Foundation here:

New Editor Experiences: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences

New Readers: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

SHOW NOTES

Find out more about Abbey's current work at: https://wearetrimtab.com/

And read about the research she conducted at the Wikimedia Foundation here:

New Editor Experiences: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences

New Readers: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

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Open-Source Alternatives

Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we check in with what's new in some of the biggest open-source creative applications like Blender, Audacity, and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, plus we talk through some tips and tricks for more of our favorite open-source apps like VLC, EarTrumpet, Windows Terminal, WinMerge, and more.

The software we discussed in this ep includes:

Blender: https://www.blender.org/

Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/

GNU Image Manipulation Program: https://www.gimp.org/

VLC: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

EarTrumpet: https://eartrumpet.app/

Windows Terminal: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701?hl=en-us&gl=US

WinMerge: https://winmerge.org/

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

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3D Movie Maker With Foone Turing

Foone Turing regularly performs feats of retro-computing resurrection on Twitter, but convincing Microsoft to release the source code for its classic '90s animation program 3D Movie Maker may be their greatest achievement to date. We sat down with Foone to talk about their plans for expanding 3DMM, asking a big software company to dig through their archives, ancient CompuServe nodes, illicit source-code possession, what's in their forensic data-recovery toolkit, the shocking origin of Comic Sans, and more!

SHOW NOTES

The 3D Movie Maker Github Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker

Foone's biggest Twitter thread about the project: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1511808848729804803

A big repository of films from the 3DMM community: https://3dmm.com/movies.php

Foone's video game death generator: https://deathgenerator.com/

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google