User-centered design is essential for scientific GUIs, in which complex workflows and time pressure often challenge usability. Understanding the types of users and responding to their needs leads to increased productivity, higher user satisfaction, and supports building a broader user community.
This presentation will share results from the user interviews made for the Helmholtz-funded...
During February 26–28, 2025, the first-ever particle accelerator user interface/user experience (UI/UX) workshop was held at SLAC. Attendees had backgrounds ranging from software development to control systems management and human factors science. The workshop began with participants discussing the current state of UI/UX procedures and practices at their respective laboratories to share...
At the Advanced Light Source new strategies are being employed to create maintainable web-based controls and data analysis applications for Bluesky beamlines. Our approach centers on creating modular library components available in different software languages that address requirements shared across multiple beamlines. A combination of modern tooling and packaging systems has enabled a...
The Web Rapid Application development Platform (WRAP) developed at CERN, has been used extensively the past few years by a users across the organization to create applications for monitoring and control of their equipment. However, user feedback identified the inability to define custom, user-specific, logic for data manipulation as a major bottleneck. We'll present how this functionality was...
For the last 20 years, information, monitoring, and control of beamline elements has been done using tabular UIs. We'll demonstrate how using the same information on the backend, we can construct a new UI that matches the physical layout of the beamline: Synoptics. The result is both more information dense and more intuative for users. Two use cases will be presented, one for geometric...
