Jinghui Cheng

"Ohhh, He's the Boss!": Unpacking Power Dynamics Among Developers, Designers, and End-Users in FLOSS Usability Addressing usability in free, libre, and open-source software (FLOSS) is a challenging issue, particularly due to a long-existing "by developer, for developer" mentality. Engaging designers and end-us...

Power dynamics have a strong impact on how well designers and end-users are included in FLOSS communities. How do these power dynamics work? How can we make meaningful changes? Our #CSCW2025 paper explores these topics.

If you can't download it from ACM DL, preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15494

22.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now at #CSCW2025! The Open Source Community workshop is exploring the human side of open source collaboration, from navigating power dynamics among developers, designers, and users to managing interdisciplinary multi project teams.

21.10.2025 10:05 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Who is to Blame: A Comprehensive Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Designer-Developer Collaboration | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Software development relies on effective collaboration between Software Development Engineers (SDEs) and User eXperience Designers (UXDs) to create software products of high quality and usability. Whi...

I had the pleasure to have presented our work for understanding and strengthening designer-developer collaboration in this evolving software development landscape at #CSCW2025, done with Shurui Zhou and our students: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... If you missed the talk, you can still read the paper!

20.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

If you want to know how playful experience can inform our understanding of human-AI relationship, and you missed Nik's great talk of our paper at #CSCW2025, there is still chance to read it! I ensure you it's going to be entertaining and at the same time provocative. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

20.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0