Berkeley User Experience Program

Mission

Improve the usefulness and usability of campus projects.

Methods

  • Provide UX expertise to teams.

  • Provide mentoring and training to individuals and teams.

  • Apply UC Berkeley's Usability Principles to campus projects.

For Project Managers

For best results on your project, engage with UX early in the Development Life Cycle, ideally in the discovery phase. Here is one example:

 SIS Development Life-Cycle

UX Program Process

Training and Mentoring

If you have an interest in building some professional UX capacity, here are some options: 

Quick UX Assessment

If you'd like to have a short conversation about your project, please contact us

UX Expertise

Three criteria are required to engage with the UX Program:

  • Project team: Readiness

  • Project team: Capacity and feasibility for implementation

    • Benefits can come from something as simple as creating a web page.

  • UX program team: Availability

If your team meets the first two criteria, please contact the UX Program and we can assess the next steps together.

UC Berkeley's Usability Principles

Our ability to efficiently and effectively meet UC Berkeley's institutional goals is dependent on having ​​useful and usable systems and tools. By following these usability principles, we will be better supported in our shared mission.

UX Examples

To get a sense of how usability principles have been applied to campus projects, see UX Program in Berkeley IT: Examples.

Contact

Please reach out to the program lead, Rachel Hollowgrass at rhollow@berkeley.edu with questions or to set up a consulting session.