Scientific sofTware Research for User experience, Design, Engagement, and Learning

STRUDEL enables teams to create user-centered software for scientific communities.

Plan, design, and build better scientific software projects using STRUDEL Planning Framework and Design System.

Build Scientific UIs

UI Task Flow library & guides to streamline scientific software UI design and development.

Plan your UX strategy

Questions, guidelines, and insights to help teams incorporate UX into project planning and execution.

Events & News

STRUDEL Team hosted a lively workshop to Build Scientific UIs with STRUDEL and AI Assistants

Thirty plus scientists and research software engineers went from idea to interactive prototype in a day using STRUDEL.

STRUDEL leads an engaging workshop at US-RSE '25 on conducting User Interviews

The STRUDEL team hosted a highly interactive in-person workshop at the US-RSE 2025 Conference in Philadelphia, providing research engineers with hands-on training on conducting semi-structured user interviews.

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STRUDEL is an open source project housed at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. STRUDEL partners include members of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Scientific Data (SciData) Division UX team, Superbloom Design, The Carpentries, and 2i2c.