Fluid : Designing Software that works - For everyone.

Projects we're leading

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FLOE aims to provide the resources needed to enable inclusive access to personally relevant, engaging learning opportunities for the full diversity of learners and content producers.

Decapod is focused on building an inexpensive solution for digitizing materials: a solution that will produce high quality scans of print materials. Decapod will remove the barriers to digitization such as cost, lack of expertise, and lack of distribution formats.

For information on how to carry out various design activities check out the Fluid Design Handbook for information about:

  • Personas
  • UX Walkthroughs
  • User Testing
  • Accessibility Guidelines

Fluid Engage will continue the core work of the Fluid community while working with curators and educators within museums and galleries. Fluid Engage will address the challenges of incorporating new technology into their web, mobile, and physical spaces.

Fluid Academic is the initial project that marks the beginning of the Fluid community and the original releases of the core products. The goals of Fluid Academic were to create flexible and transformable user interface components that were then implemented into our partner projects.

Projects we're involved in

CollectionSpace is a collaborative effort to develop an open source collections management software application that meets the needs of small-to-large museums, historical societies, and other collection-holding organizations.

Opencast is a collaboration of educational institutions focusing on audio and video content. Matterhorn is an Opencast project building an enterprise-level, open source podcast and rich media capture, processing and delivery system.

Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University,
funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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