Past Events
Workshop: Building Scientific UIs with STRUDEL and AI Assistants
October 23, 2025
Join the STRUDEL team at Berkeley Lab on Oct 23, 2025, for an in-person event to build scientific web UIs using STRUDEL Design System and generative AI coding tools. We will be using VSCode, React, and AI assistant tools throughout the day, but you do not need to be an expert to join.
Workshop: Learning to Talk with Your Users - User Experience Research for RSEs
October 6, 2025
Join us at US-RSE 2025 @ Philadelphia, to learn how to run semi-structured user interviews that can reveal unmet user needs, inspire intuitive designs, catch issues early, and reduce support demands - saving time, effort, and costs throughout your project lifecycle
Hackathon: Building Better UX in Science - Using UX Methods and STRUDEL
January 27, 2025
Join us for an in-person hackathon focused on the intersection of User Experience (UX) design and science! The STRUDEL project is hosting an all day, in-person hackathon on Monday, January 27th, 2025 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
STRUDEL Hackathon: Go From User Need to UI Prototype in One Day
March 19, 2024
The STRUDEL project is hosting an all day, in person hackathon on Tuesday March 19, 2024 at Berkeley Lab to help scientific software teams design and implement a prototype user interface. If your scientific software team has a problem or feature requiring a new web-based user interface, reach out & join us in the hackathon!
How to Build a Science UI: Getting Started with the STRUDEL Design System
March 8, 2024
Join us virtually for the second in STRUDEL's series of events. This hour long webinar will introduce more about the STRUDEL project and help you get started using our new Design System. Follow along with our live, interactive demo to learn how to go from an initial idea for a feature in your scientific software to leveraging the design system to stand up a web-based user interface.
The Journey to STRUDEL: How We Came to Embrace User Experience in Scientific Ecosystems
February 21, 2024
Have you found building and delivering usable scientific software to be challenging? Encountering challenges meeting user needs? Join us virtually for the first in the STRUDEL project’s series of events to help support adoption of user experience approaches in scientific software development.