Design participativo numa comunidade de software livre: o caso do website BrOffice.org

  • Authors:
  • Frederick M. C. van Amstel

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Faber-Ludens de Design de Interação, Curitiba/PR

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The BrOffice.org website, that distributes a free software office suite, was restructured by participatory design with their user community and developers. To involve people that were geographically disperse in the process, Internet communication tools were used with traditional use forms or modified ones. The discussion's synthesis leveraged a new strategy for presenting their products and treating their users, who should have easier access to services. At the end of the process, documentation was built collaboratively specifying the new website information architecture.