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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Icon Usability
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () mountlinux ! com>
Date:       2001-03-24 9:14:41
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Hi.

> Ask yourself this: do you think the regulars on this mailing list are
> representative of all computer users (including AOLusers and beginners)?
> If you do, I suggest you spend a little time on usernet :-)

No, but I bet they all know at least 3 people who are. For example, I am most 
deffinitely _not_ representative of most computer users. But I know several 
people who are. For example:

  1) Linux-using wife (ex win32er. used linux 5-15% of the time for a few 
years, and exclusively since kde2 arrived)
  2) Good friend and co-worker who has one of those "I deal w/people" jobs 
and spends the entire day in front of her windows machine. No Linux 
experience.
  3) The guy at the bookstore who is into things like Linux and KDE, but only 
at a literate user level. Knows how to compile software from tarball 
(assuming no unexpected curve-balls), but that's his limit.

That list took ... oh ... 15 seconds to come up with. How hard would it be 
for me to get them to take 15 minutes to take the test? Easy like pie. This, 
I believe is the audience we really need to target.

On the usability list, one fellow posted about wanting the icon survey 
accesable enough for him to get his win32 using room-mate to take. This is a 
step in the right direction and it may prove to be indicative of the thoughts 
of a lot of people on this matter. And if it isn't, we'll put the bee in 
their bonnet, so to speak.

-- 
Aaron Seigo

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