<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hello, We still have a few openings for the design theater, if some of you would like to bring some of design issues you have with your software. To remind you about the Design Theater. What's the Design Theater? The Design Theater ('Theater' as in 'surgery theater') is a format by which the Canonical Design Team provide advice and support to community developers to make their app/software shine! We do not perform :) How does it work? The Design Theater has 2 categories of participants: developers who come to the Theater seeking design advice and who are ready and willing to present the design issues they have encountered; and spectators who just want watch and learn about design thinking and problem solving. Developers who seek design advice present their app or software for 5 mins and the designers walk everyone through the steps of design thinking and problem solving to come with useful directions or next steps for the software. What do you need to do? If you seek advice for a specific app or piece of software, you need to send me a link or screenshot and brief description of the problem you have identified as soon as possible. You will also need to gather a profile of your target users and what you know of the context in which your software will be used (not for the initial email but for the presentation of your software at the Theater). We can only dedicate 15 mins per participants. Your description and presentation of your users should be short (5-8 mins) because we want to be able to work with a few community people during the short time we have at UDS. Note that the allocation of these times may change according to how many people send us requests. But you will be dedicated a minimum of 15 minutes during the Theater. If you are an observer, you just need to show up! When is it taking place? So far, we have tentatively scheduled the sessions over 3 days: Monday, May 7 - 14:00 - 15:00 Tuesday, May 8 - 15:00 - 16:00 Wednesday, May 9 - 15:00 - 16:00 How can you help us? It would be very useful if you could send us your design issue in advance of the sessions. With them in hand, we can coordinate the sessions and organise them better - by theme or complementary design issues. This way, the sessions can be better targeted. I will be sending you more information - confirmation of dates and a preview of what we will be covering during the individual sessions - after we received some of the materials and as it comes closer to UDS. Hope to see you in the sessions and meanwhile let me know if you have questions. C. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Charline.poirier@canonical.com">Charline.poirier@canonical.com</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Charline Poirier Acting Head of Design Canonical Ltd. Office: 00 44 207 630 2491 21-24 Millbank | Floor 27 Millbank Tower | London | SW1P 4QP ubuntu.com | canonical.com </pre> </body> </html>