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Current positions

Current design experts :

UX expert :
Visual design expert :
User testing expert :
IRC chat moderator : Heiko Tietze

Current projects experts :

The user testing expert see to it that whatever needs to be tested gets tested and that the tests are carried out well. The expert doesn't have to personally take part in tests -- as we have volunteers all over the world, that would sometimes be impossible -- but they have to make sure that the tests get done and are sufficiently accurate to be useful.

The visual design expert oversee all visual design related work. That means making sure that all graphical elements that are needed get made and follow a certain style. It also means creating visual design and branding guidelines and style guides when they're needed.

The UX expert care for the general UX of LibreOffice. That means bringing attention to important UX bugs, watching over their progress, and cooperating with the user testing expert, the visual design expert, and developers based on what each bug requires. It also involves refining the design process, from the bug report stage all the way to implementation.

Project experts are designed when required for large projects. They take care of the whiteboards and of the project. They should also be responsible for crafting the tentative design.

In general :

experts are voted for 6 months,
if for some position, nobody applies, then the design team self-organizes (for the best and the worse as usual)
experts give an orientation to the work of the design team, organize the debate without censorship,
if a particular point yields a lot of conflicting opinions, the final say goes to a vote after all rationnal arguments have been synthetized by the expert.

What We've Accomplished

Please add links to the documentation of things we have done within the UX team. We will need this e.g. for presenting our stuff on the LibreOffice conference.

Topic	Date started	Date stopped	People involved	Delivered in LO Version	Links
Testing Icons	June 2012	-	Björn, Astron	-	http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg04587.html

Design Team Members

If you'd like to get involved as well, feel free to add yourself to the list.

Design Team

Picture	Name	Wiki User Page	IRC User Name	Blog	Topic Interest	LibreOffice Interests	Comments	Last Update
	Heiko Tietze	htietze	htietze	blog	UX Mentoring User Survey Statistical Analysis Interface Design Human Interface Guidelines	Consistency Self-descriptiveness	Don't eat the yellow snow where the huskies use to go.	2015-06-10
...	V. Stuart Foote	vsfoote	vsfoote	...	...	Accessibility & a11y General UX	...	2015-06-10
...	Jan 'Kendy' Holešovský	kendy	kendy	blog	Liaison to the ESC	...	...	2015-06-11
...	Philippe Jung	philjung	philjung		Develop new features Make things simple and intuitive	Writer Impress	...	2015-06-17
	Adolfo Jayme	Fitoschido	fitojb	Blog	Visual design, UX patterns, localization			2015-07-05
	Thomas		Lendo	User:Lendo/Usability	User experience Localization	Make LibreOffice better and easier to use		2019-09-11
	Rizal Muttaqin	User:rizmut	rizmut	Mastering LibreOffice	Icon Design User Experience	Make LibreOffice shiny and sweety	Let's Code for Afterlife	2020-05-06
	Eyal Rozenberg	EyalRozenberg	einpoklum	N/A	???	Right-to-Left support User Experience		2024-10-03
...	Philippe Jung	philjung	philjung		Develop new features Make things simple and intuitive	Writer Impress	...	2015-06-17
...	Cassandra Freund	User:CassieLX	cassie_lx@matrix.org	...	Sifr Design	I'm using mainly Draw, Calc and Writer.	not active atm.	2022-10-09
...	Ronak Kothari	...	ronakkothari123	Web Design Experience Web Development Experience User Experience	Absolutely love designing and developing the web and providing a better experience for users everywhere.	Want to help make the website more enticing and modernized!	Currently making mockup	2022-03-14
Picture	Name	Wiki User Page	IRC User Name	Blog	Topic Interest	LibreOffice Interests	Comments	Last Update

Design Team Alumni

Picture	Name	Wiki User Page	IRC User Name	Blog	Topic Interest	LibreOffice Interests	Comments	Last Update
(no image)	Stefan Knorr (astron)	User:Astron	astron		yes, please: user experience/interaction marginally: branding not very much: marketing	make it just work	informal "mentor" role – so don't hesitate to ask...	2012-02-16
(no image)	Laurent Lyaudet (LLyaudet)	User:LLyaudet	LLyaudet		User experience Ergonomics			2014-06-29
[coming soon]	Mike Houben	User:Houbsi	Houbsi	...	User Experience Webdesign Animation Film Photography	Interface Design Website	...	2011-02-10
...	Björn Balazs	User:Bjoern	...	OpenSource-Usability-Labs.com	Creating extraordinary user experiences for free software by understanding human needs	Doing <- that for an office suite	...	2011-02-10
	Ivan Miskovic	User:IvanM	ivanm	Currently neglected :(	Visual Design Website User Experience Community!	LibreOffice has so much potential - I'd be happy if I contributed to a small part of its realisation	...	2011-09-25
	Nikash SINGH	User:Nik	...	Even more neglected than Ivan's! =O	Branding, Design direction, User Interface	Putting our best foot forward	=)	2011-10-23
...	Gareth Edwards	User:Gareth	...	...	User Experience	Turning LibreOffice into the best office suite available. Particularly interested in Impress, Draw and Writer (roughly in that order).	...	2011-02-16
...	Tobias Bernard	User:Bertob	-	-	Vector Graphics Logo Design Drawing Comics/Cartoons/Caricatures	Logo/Icon Design everything else^^	-	2011-02-19
...	Rob Cummings	User:Equis	Equis	StudioEquis.com	Vector graphics & logo design Branding & collateral design Marketing 3-D modeling & rendering	Artwork design & layout of collateral Helping users on IRC	Background in architecture, but design is design!	2011-02-21
	Christoph Noack	User:ChristophNoack	christoph_n	luxate.blogspot.com/	User Experience Design Interaction Design Usability	Somehow everything :-)	Former UX Design Team Lead	2012-01-23
Design Team Lead; Visual Design	Bernhard Dippold	User:Bedipp	bedipp	...	positive interaction with interesting people combining idealism with realism proving open source ideas to work in "real life"	Community building and support Branding Marketing Design and Artwork Teamwork and all combinations		2011-02-10
	Luca Cappelletti	User:LucaCappelletti	...	developerinfodomestic.blogspot.com	Interaction Design (IxD) Emotional Design Free/Libre software developer evangelist	Design for humans needs	...	...
...	Phil Jackson	User:Simplicity Instinct	...	www.SimplicityInstinct.com	Have used a variety of Word Processors and Spreadsheets and written many software applications in many different vertical markets which has given me time to understand what works and what mostly doesn't.	Writer, Calc, Impress	Have researched Software Usability and written a White Paper on 12 principles that make software usability better. See LibreOffice as being a potential market leader in offering highly usable productivity suites.	2011-05-10
	Jaron Kuppers	User:JaronBaron	JaronBaron		User Experience and Usability Improving resources for academics Icon design	Anything really that needs help... even the tasks people don't like doing		2011-02-10
-	Johannes Bausch	User:Joey	-	-	Photography Programming Advertisement Design	Branding Logo Design Icon Design	-	2011-02-17
	Sabin Densmore	user:S.Gecko		http://www.onegecko.com	User Experience User Interface Interaction Models Building competitive advantage through better UI/UX	The whole suite
		User:Mirek2
...	Michel Renon	Michelr	...	blog	User Experience User Interface Create simple, powerfull and obvious to understand software	strong user of Writer user of Draw, Calc and Impress Starting to develop LibreOffice	Mac user since 1986 ! using Free software (Firefox, OpenOffice...) since 2007 on macOS and Ubuntu Software developer since my first Mac : DBMS, scientific, medical, web Now working in python with OpenERP	2015-06-12
	F. Alexander Wilms	Alexander Wilms			Overall look 'n' feel Templates	Impress & Writes Predefined Styles		2011-11-04
...	Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn	K-j	....	.....	website design website usability (German/French)	learning from others website usability	Even on a creative team there must be someone who hangs on the pictures	2011-06-02
...	Yousuf 'Jay' Philips	philipz	jphilipz	...	User Experience Usage Metrics	...	...	2015-06-11
...	Katarina Behrens	Bubli	bubli	...	Reading code Writing code Complaining about code Dreaming in code	Draw/Impress, sometimes Calc Fixing (UI) bugs Transforming design ideas into code	...	2015-07-03
...	P Rana	Pr410	...	...	User Experience Interface Design	Consistency Ease of use	...	2016-11-28
	Paulo José O. Amaro	User:Paulojose	...	Paulo José - Brainstorm	User Experience Design Usability & Accessibility 2D/3D Artwork Drawing Photography	Interface Design and User Experience studies, for now.		2011-02-10
Picture	Name	Wiki User Page	IRC User Name	Blog	Topic Interest	LibreOffice Interests	Comments	Last Update