Hackathon: Building Better UX in Science - Using UX Methods and STRUDEL

January 27, 2025STRUDEL Team

The STRUDEL team hosted an in person hackathon at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which focused on the intersection of User Experience (UX) design and science. Attendees gained hands-on experience with key UX research methods, including stakeholder identification, goal prioritization, and user scenario creation. They also learned how to leverage the STRUDEL Design System and adapt Task Flows to address their unique user needs and scenarios.

The session was highly interactive, with attendees contributing to lively discussions and brainstorming sessions on the hackathon's flow and opportunities for STRUDEL to grow and expand. We're grateful to all the attendees who joined us for a productive and engaging day!

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STRUDEL is an open source ecosystem founded by members of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Scientific Data (SciData) Division's UX team. Currently stakeholders are from the SciData UX team along with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Superbloom Design, The Carpentries, and 2i2c. The project is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liz Vu & Josh Greenberg Program Officers, grants G-2022-19360, G-2023-21098, and G-2024-22557.