An accessible User Interface to build custom smart home IoT
Ensuring that electronics and coding proficient interfaces intended for beginner users are accessible, usable and approachable to new users with ESPHome.
Music listening behaviour in Smart Homes. Improving the smart speaker music management experience
Improving controls for a music player that is connect to local smart home devices and speakers where we prioritise management of audio across a home’s smart ecosystem.
Helping Journalists open suspicious documents safely
Helping journalists and activists stay safe from potentially infected files with a simple, straight-forward and understandable OCR based tool that ‘scans’ your suspicious document and makes a ‘clean’ copy.
How developers understand package security information: UI for Attestations
Working with the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF/Securing software repos working group on understanding attestations and developing an open source attestation style guide.
Understanding the lives of Designers contributing to OSS with diary studies
The research project ‘The Secret Lives of Designers contributing to OSS’. A 12 week diary studies user research and resulting industry report.
Sending files without a trace. Using the magic wormhole protocol for peer-to-peer file transfer
Helping NGO’s, Journalists and Activists stay safe when sending essential files over the internet by making sure they understand and can operate peer to peer file sharing tools.
Coming together as an OSS community to keep foundations and essential OSS funded.
Supporting the foss responders project by ensuring we had great visual design and indentity that prompted donations and design assets and styles that supporting fundraising and communication efforts.
Making sense of global data about Malware and Spyware searchable, viewable and understandable
Making sense of global data about Malware and Spyware searchable, viewable and understandable to journalists, activists and academics.
Designing safe, private and care-focused mutual aid experiences in times of crisis
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a team of technologists explored and prototyped what a safe, secure, connected and crisis-relevant mutual aid technology network would need to look like.
Providing essential coaching during prototype funding rounds for open source software
Making the most of limited coaching time with open source software projects that are in prototyping funding rounds is an exercise in getting to the root of a design and usability problem and quickly and efectively as possible.