Brussels / 30 & 31 January 2016

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Designing with and for developers

How UX landed in OpenEmbedded


In this talk, I will tell you how and why OpenEmbedded embraced user-centered design, explain our design process, and show how design can make important contributions in the most unlikely places.

OpenEmbedded is an embedded Linux build system, a wickedly complicated tool for engineers to create heavily customised Linux distributions for small computers. OpenEmbedded tools have always been text-based: their users are masters of the command line, and have trained their brains to extract knowledge from large blobs of raw text data. How did an interaction designer end up becoming an OpenEmbedded contributor?

In this talk, I will tell you how and why OpenEmbedded embraced user-centered design, explain our design process, and show how design can make important contributions in the most unlikely places.

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Belen Barros Pena

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