Johanna Cohoon
UX Researcher at Berkeley Lab
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohanna Cohoon is a UX researcher with 12 years of mixed-methods experience studying how people build and use scientific software and cloud platforms. She blends qualitative and quantitative approaches—interviews, contextual inquiry, trace/log analysis, surveys, and content analysis—to turn messy real-world observations into actionable design interventions, publications, and talks. Her work spans open science, reproducibility, and FAIRness, and she frequently conducts research within the communities she studies, collaborating directly with developers and attending meetings to co-design improvements. At Berkeley Lab and previously as a postdoc at the University of Utah, she has focused on improving researcher efficiency on cloud testbeds and encouraging better documentation and preservation practices. An active contributor to open-source efforts like the OSF.io front end, she pairs hands-on UI fixes and documentation with scholarly rigor. Based in Austin, she brings a rare blend of project management, developer familiarity, and social-science training to infrastructure and scientific software design.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Information Sciences, PhD, Information Sciences at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science at University of Virginia
English, French
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
html9
templating-engine8
mako8
template-engine8
django7
python7
documentation6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 16 PRs, 139 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Johanna primarily contributed to the front-end of the OSF.io project, focusing on updating and improving the "Getting Started" pages. They implemented and adjusted UI components, including video embeds and navigation elements. The user also made minor corrections to help documentation and email templates, indicating a focus on improving user experience and clarity.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
jlcohoon/softcite-dataset
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:74 pushes in 1 month
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