Attend Upcoming Community Events
Join the STRUDEL community for webinars, workshops, and other events focused on building more usable scientific software. You can also partner with us to co-host an event, reach out to strudel@lbl.gov to collaborate.
Join our Monthly Office Hours
Are you looking for support on a current project utilizing STRUDEL, interested in getting started with the STRUDEL Kit, or exploring how to better incorporate UX in your product planning and roadmap?
Get help directly from the STRUDEL team during our monthly office hours. Join us each month at the times below:
Date | Type | Time | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
Wed, Sep 24, 2025 | UX support with Superbloom Design | 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86900543275 |
Thurs, Nov 6, 2025 | STRUDEL Kit office hours with LBNL | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT | https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/92080995396?pwd=vki18jjUb5OC0whdVMbb9bEJAGR6Gw.1&jst=2 |
Wed, Nov 19, 2025 | UX support with Superbloom Design | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86900543275 |
Thurs, Dec 18, 2025 | STRUDEL Kit office hours with LBNL | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT | https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/92080995396?pwd=vki18jjUb5OC0whdVMbb9bEJAGR6Gw.1&jst=2 |
Wed, Jan 21, 2025 | UX support with Superbloom Design | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86900543275 |
Thurs, Feb 12, 2025 | STRUDEL Kit office hours with LBNL | 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT | https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/92080995396?pwd=vki18jjUb5OC0whdVMbb9bEJAGR6Gw.1&jst=2 |
Reach out to strudel@lbl.gov for any other requests.
Contribute to STRUDEL
STRUDEL is a way to plan, design, and build usable scientific software. STRUDEL will be a better tool if it is anchored in community needs and insights, so your engagement and contributions are very valuable. We recommend you get involved with STRUDEL through one of the activities listed below and elaborated on elsewhere in this guide. If you have another idea of how you can support that mission, we encourage you to pursue it. Contributions come in all shapes and sizes and we value them all. Let us know if you need help.
Some ways to get involved:
- Enhancing features or fixing a bug: Make revisions to existing STRUDEL Kit code
- Adding a Task Flow: Contribute an entirely new stepwise flow to be included in the STRUDEL Kit
- Revising documentation: Correct or elaborate on any information about STRUDEL
- Improving tutorial content: Enhance existing tutorials or add your own
- Sharing UX resources or principles: Provide reliable UX insights or resources that can help guide STRUDEL use or development
- Sharing or discussing an idea: Add to or begin a conversation about STRUDEL or scientific user experiences
- Share how you’re using STRUDEL: Share your use case with the community
- Give us a star on Github: Signal your support for the project by starring the STRUDEL Kit repository
- Get to know the UX in science community: Join a working group for people interested in learning about and improving scientific user experiences, organized by the US Research Software Engineers (US-RSE) Association. US-RSE is not STRUDEL affiliated, but you will find us and like minded people in the UX working group there.
You can read the complete contribution guide here.
Join the US-RSE UX Working Group
We invite you to join the US-RSE User Experience (UX) Working Group (UXWG). This working group advocates for increased awareness and adoption of UX methods in research software engineering. The STRUDEL team regularly joins these monthly meetings.
Working group members have a variety of backgrounds and professional roles. During meetings, they share knowledge, experiences, and challenges and to foster a diverse and inclusive community for research software UX practitioners and research software engineers (RSEs) who are interested in UX. Doing so will collectively help us advocate for and demystify UX to the larger RSE community, scientists across domains, and funding agency staff who support products and services.
To get involved, join the US-RSE community on Slack and visit us on the #wg-ux channel. You can also directly contact the working group co-chairs (Drew Paine & Hannah Cohoon) at wg-ux@us-rse.org.