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List:       gimp-developer
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-developer] Moving selection contents with the move tool?
From:       gg () catking ! net
Date:       2006-09-28 22:20:27
Message-ID: op.tgk7fcjotxpshh () linbox ! localdomain
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:32:33 +0200, saulgoode <saulgoode@brickfilms.com>  
wrote:

> A google of
> "CAD translations and transformations" will readily display how the two
> operations are commonly paired. Perhaps a better question to ask would
> be what graphics programs *don't* associate these operations?

Be careful not to prejudice that answer with the question you ask. Gimp is  
not CAD. CAD users will be architechs and engineers and probably see  
things in a more mathematical way like most of us here do.

If you do the search you suggest you are not likely to find links saying  
these two are unrelated. The fact you use "translations" rather than  
"move" will also bias what you find. Your background is unconsciously  
affecting the question and hence the answer.

It is a basic technique of market researcher and opinion polls. Word the  
question in such a way as to get the replies your client wants.

> Perhaps a better question to ask would
> be what graphics programs *don't* associate these operations?

Yes, a quick look at PS and PSP for a start.

Bills idea of some more serious user research is good, though there's the  
same danger of prejudicing the result if you're not careful.

You'd have to explain the function of each tool without any reference to  
Gimp since asking the user test each tool and classify it will necessarily  
implant an association in his mind.

A quick scan of other software would be a good starting point to see if  
Gimp does some of this better or worse and pick up a few ideas.

I read somewhere of a technique of studying UI design with imaginary  
stereotype users with a specific, typical task to do. Then looking at the  
steps they would have to go through and imagine how they would likely go  
about it.



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