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Subject: Re: Tasks for Google Code-In
From: Marco Martin <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date: 2011-10-27 11:59:53
Message-ID: 201110271401.35996.notmart () gmail ! com
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On Thursday 27 October 2011, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi all,
> Lydia Pintscher asked me if we could come up with UI design or UX research
> tasks
> for Plasma Active for Google Code-In ( see
> http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2011/10/17/i-need-your-ideas-for-google-code
> -in/
> for details). These tasks are supposed to be rather small and doable by
> high-school
> students.
> Here are some that came to my mind:
> - Identify KDE applications that would be especially useful on a mobile
> device and
+1
> identify what would need to be done to make them touch-friendly
> - Identify what would need to be done to make non-Active apps currently
> shipped
> with PA (e.g. Okular, Bangarang) more touch-friendly
this could become a series of documented pain points, like
"i tried to do x and i had to use a mouse in this step because of.. "
> - Extract interaction patterns from the shell as well as current Active
> apps to add to
> our - yet to be created - Interaction Pattern Library
> - Create additional usage scenarios for Plasma Active
not sure of those two, while very useful, the typical target of code-in is
high school students.. let's say it wasn't soo much positive last year, ie
what was really simple tasks, they did their "homework", things that required
a bit more imagination, hmm, wasn't that good ;)
they want a lot of very small tasks just to be able to say look, i'm the first
in the ranking :p
> - Further expand our FAQ
+1
--
Marco Martin
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