PCIbex

Description

I worked on the documentation for PCIbex, an open-source online experiment builder. I’m a big fan of PCIbex — I used it to develop experiments when I was the lab manager at the UCLA Processing Lab — and I volunteered to refactor its documentation.

Here’s the version I handed over vs. the original version

Highlights

• Designed and developed a new Jekyll and GitHub Pages website to replace original WordPress website.
• Redesigned layout to improve navigation.
  • Added sidebar with permanent, easy-to-access links to important sections.
  • Separated sections like “Elements” and “Commands” into different pages to reduce information density and increase readability.
  • Designed a new set of element icons to replace the old, visually inconsistent icons.
• Refactored user documentation into a task-oriented manual (“Core Concepts”) and project-based tutorials (“Basic Tutorial” and “Advanced Tutorial”).
• Wrote templates to keep posts consistent, and to make adding new elements and commands easier.
• Started an “Internal documentation” section for future contributors.
• Found bugs and submitted bug reports when testing beta versions of PCIbex.