The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $1.125 million grant to a team of researchers at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Over the next 15 months, BIDS will host a collaborative effort between BIDS, LBNL, and their partners at Superbloom, The Carpentries, and 2i2c. Through the STRUDEL project, this collective endeavor aims to promote awareness and adoption of User Experience (UX) approaches in scientific software development work. The STRUDEL (Scientific sofTware Research for User experience, Design, Engagement and Learning) project is establishing an open source, open science community to develop and sustain a planning framework and design system for creating more usable, sustainable research software workflows. “The STRUDEL Design System and associated code are exciting tools to help scientific software teams build usable web applications in a rapid manner,” said Fernando Pérez, the faculty director of BIDS. “This project will benefit directly from the many scholars interested in UX problems across many disciplinary domains.” Participants interested in learning more about STRUDEL’s upcoming courses and toolkits can visit the STRUDEL website.
Read the full, original article written by Ingrid Ockert on the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Website: