The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a
User Experience Mentor
to start work as soon as possible.
We are looking forward to integrate user experience deeper into our development processes. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, may include any of:
Main goals
- acting as a peer of other UX volunteers
- working with developers to find out what is technically possible and makes sense
- growing the UX/design contributions and contributor base via outreach, and searching for good contributions in various forms (mailing lists, g+, irc, blog)
- research in bugzilla, searching for consensus for ux-advice bugs
Main tasks
- mentoring new contributors in the user experience community, to introduce them the existing workflows
- volunteer inclusion: both UX/design, and also developers interested in hacking user interface
- growing the contributor base and doing community outreach
- organizing remote UX meetings (via phone, video conference or IRC) and in-person
- establishing and fostering coordination and communication between developers, the user experience team, marketing and design, acting as a gateway between these
Other tasks
- conducting surveys to improve the LibreOffice user experience and presenting results to the community
- working on improving existing LibreOffice Glade-based dialogues and drafting/developing new ones
- working with others on concepts, designs, strategies to evolve the LibreOffice user interface, drafting new user interface elements
- prototyping
- identification of EasyHacks to lower the entry barrier to the UX community
- triaging ux-advice bugs in bugzilla
Tasks have to be carried out in joint cooperation with our existing developer, marketing and UX/design community, and with our Development Mentoring Lead.…
