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Are you trying to accelerate your UI development with AI? In this post, STRUDEL contributor Sarah P. shares lessons learned from her experience working with an unfamiliar codebase and AI tools. 💡 Want more insights? Join the STRUDEL team for an in person workshop for prototyping web UIs with AI tools at Berkeley Lab on Oct 23, 2025. Registration ends tomorrow, Thursday, Oct 2. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gMewceXi

Build a user interface for your research software with STRUDEL. We’ll guide you through using our Design System with AI tools like Cline for building high quality web apps.  🎟 Sign up here with the registration code STRUDEL25: https://lnkd.in/gMewceXi  Registration ends this Thursday, October 2 Email us at strudel@lbl.gov if you have questions. Travel support is available. Rough agenda: ✅ Intro to STRUDEL Design System + identifying your app users’ task flows ✅ Approaches to using AI tools 🍕🥦 Lunch ✅ Incorporating your data + customizing your app ✅ Testing functionality ✅ Sharing your work and feedback 🤝 Networking hour #ScientificSoftware #OpenSource #Workshop #Training #UserExperience #DesignSystem #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

Join us October 23rd for a workshop designed to help you rapidly build a high-quality scientific web app. Thanks to funding from the Sloan Foundation, the STRUDEL team can host you in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Join the STRUDEL community and spend the day using our science oriented Design System + generative AI tools to quickly craft usable scientific web apps. 🎟 Sign up here with the registration code STRUDEL25: https://lnkd.in/gMewceXi Email us at strudel@lbl.gov if you have questions. Travel support is available. Rough agenda: Morning: → Intro to STRUDEL Design System → Start building with STRUDEL and AI tools 🍕🥦 Lunch Afternoon: → Connect your data + Customize your app  → Add more functionality + plan next steps → Share your work  + gather feedback 🤝 Networking hour #ScientificSoftware #OpenSource #Workshop #Training #UserExperience #DesignSystem #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

STRUDEL contributors Superbloom will be hosting office hours next week, providing support to anyone in the scientific community who needs general UX advice or help with the STRUDEL Kit. Get the link and find out more at go.lbl.gov/StrudelOH See you then! 👋

We love feedback and we bet you do too. If you’re presenting a poster at the US-RSE’25 conference next month, get your prep done by joining the US Research Software Engineer Association user experience working group for this week’s feedback session for poster presenters. Like usual, this meeting will be led by working group co-chairs and STRUDEL contributors @Johanna and Drew Paine, PhD. UX practitioners and the UX curious working in scientific contexts are invited to join US-RSE’s regular UX meetup. Sign up for @US-RSE to get an invite to the Slack, then join the #wg-ux channel to get meeting details. You’ll find someone from the STRUDEL team there every time, including this Thursday! If you have questions, message us or comment here. Sign up for US-RSE here: https://lnkd.in/gEAxniFu #conference-poster #posters #design #user-experience #research-software-engineering #usability #community-development

Will we be seeing you on October 23rd? Join us for a workshop designed to help you rapidly build a high-quality scientific web app. Thanks to funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the STRUDEL team can host you in person at Berkeley Lab. Join the STRUDEL community and spend the day using our science oriented Design System + generative AI tools to quickly craft usable scientific web apps. 🎟 Sign up here with the registration code STRUDEL25: https://lnkd.in/gMewceXi Email us at strudel@lbl.gov if you have questions. Travel support is available. Rough agenda: ✅ Intro to STRUDEL Design System + identifying your app users’ task flows ✅ Approaches to using AI tools 🍕🥦 Lunch ✅ Incorporating your data + customizing your app ✅ Testing functionality ✅ Sharing your work and feedback 🤝 Networking hour #ScientificSoftware #OpenSource #Workshop #Training #UserExperience #DesignSystem #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

Want to help your community improve its scientific software? We recently used The Carpentries workbench to openly share our tutorial on rapid usability testing so that anyone can learn at their own pace or run a workshop themselves. If you’re interested in running a tutorial with these materials send us an email. We can help you get trained on tutorial best practices and integrated into the STRUDEL and UX for scientific software communities. Find our free tutorial on rapid usability testing here: https://lnkd.in/gfzDgCaV #ScientificSoftware #TheCarpentries #Workshops #Teaching #Training #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

Are you honoring your documentation readers' rights? 📝 Alyssa Rock and Carrie Wattula from The Good Docs Project (https://lnkd.in/g7Rfvw3Y) gave tips to the CASS community on crafting user-focused, trustworthy, easy to understand, and easy to find docs for scientific software. These characteristics add up to happy users who can exercise their liberties as a reader 😊 📚 Watch the full talk on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gFVFxZdx 💻 Learn more about the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) here: https://cass.community/ Keep an eye out for future talks on user experience in research software 👀 Know of one? Comment here! #Documentation #Usability #ScientificSoftware #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

Join STRUDEL on October 23rd for a workshop designed to help you rapidly build a high-quality scientific web app. Thanks to funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the STRUDEL team can host you in person at Berkeley Lab. Reach out if you have questions about travel support. Sign up here with the registration code STRUDEL25: https://lnkd.in/gMewceXi Arrive with a scientific software project and leave with: ✨ A functional web app for your project. Users need to upload data, search a repository, or run a computation? Our Design System has you covered. ✨ An understanding of the pros and cons of using AI tools for web app UI development. Heard the hype but don’t know where to start or why? Our team will guide you. ✨ New professional connections. Looking to broaden your professional network? Our collaborative agenda and networking happy hour will get you connected. Contact us with questions at strudel@lbl.gov #ScientificSoftware #OpenSource #Workshop #Training #UserExperience #DesignSystem #ResearchSoftwareEngineering

Have an example of how usability or UX work affected your scientific software? We want to hear it! Share in the comments or join us at today’s US Research Software Engineer Association's UX working group meeting. To join the meeting, if you are a US-RSE member already, join the #wg-ux channel to get meeting details. If you’re not a US-RSE member already, no problem! Leave a comment here and we’ll get you in the meeting. #user-experience #research-software-engineering #usability #community-development