Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
Hey! I was at the USENIX Women in Advanced Computing 2012 Summit yesterday and will be blogging the talks from it. You can view more of my posts about this conference under the wiac12 category on this blog. Invited Talk: Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself Speaker: Sabrina Farmer, Site Reliabity Engineer, Google Inc. Sabrina started …
Yesterday the results of the Fedora 18 release name election were announced. Fedora 18 is going to be called Spherical Cow. Wait, what? Yes, Spherical Cow. “/doh” by Hobvias Sudoneighm (striatic on Flickr), used under a CC-BY 2.0 license. Tatica broke the news about the Fedora 18 release name in Vienna to Emichan and me …
I went to the Shut Up and Draw session at SXSW yesterday. On the plane ride home last night, I decided to shut up and draw some mailman ideas. Well, I have 16 more… the first sixteen were about as many I thought reasonable for one post. So here’s the rest. These are just thumbnail …
Screenshot, front page of Fedora Packages The story up ’till now You might remember some earlier posts I’ve made about Fedora package social networking. The background here is that we built a web application called Fedora Community a couple of years ago. With Luya Tshimbalanga’s help, I ran a number of usability tests on this …
What I Do Hi, I’m Máirín. 🙂 I’m an interaction designer with a little open source company called Red Hat. I work full-time as the token designer for a free operating system called Fedora. For me, it is my dream job and it is also the best job in the world. My personal passion for …
What I Do Hi, I’m Máirín. 🙂 I’m an interaction designer with a little open source company called Red Hat. I work full-time as the token designer for a free operating system called Fedora. For me, it is my dream job and it is also the best job in the world. My personal passion for …
… and this popped out of my toaster. What the hey? The above uses the stock image “White Bread Slice on Black” by D. Sharon Pruitt, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. Want your own miraculous toast? Install the Gimp. (yum install gimp -y) Grab some bread. Grab the special edition black & …
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The Fedora Design Team Bounty is a type of blog post where we’ll outline a quick-and-easy design project that needs doing for the Fedora Community, outlining all the tools, files, and other resources you’ll need to complete the project. If you’re a designer and are interested in getting involved in the free and open source …
We are making some great progress on Anaconda’s UI revamp mockups after last week’s Anaconda team meetings. Here’s the storage flow diagram, now annotated with the screen #’s from the mockups: So let’s dive into the screens as they look so far. These are hot-of-the-press and may suck, so of course we’re posting them here …