From kde-usability Sun May 26 23:30:28 2002 From: "Eric Ellsworth" Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 23:30:28 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Usabilty Advice Website & User Interaction X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102245599220614 On Sunday 26 May 2002 19:02, Irwin wrote: > On May 26, 2002 04:19 am, Marten Klencke wrote: > As I said this is certainly not a permanent solution. Something like a > messageboard forum/issue tracker (Bugzilla seems to come up a lot doesn't > it?) would help "casual users" track problems. Is this anything at all > like the "Usability Bug" idea we had going a while back? Actually, this is not really what I meant. I probably wrote it down poorly, but what I meant was to give the developers a simple and quick way to get advice on how to design things they are working on. Not to analyze software that is already out there. I like all the ideas about the forum I've heard so far. Here's a suggestion I'd like to add: We'd step on less toes if we made sure the tone of the comments was not overly critical before we posted them as whatever we present to outside viewers (especially KDE developers). People can get their guns blazing when they go looking at what's "wrong" with an app, and I'd hate to see "Dialog X sucks" be the final word of the KDE Usability project on an app. One way to handle this would be to post summaries of conversations, or notes or whatever, but another might be to have the forum behave like a Wiki in some ways, where you could highlight parts of a conversation and have others be a little more hidden (with the whole conversation still available to whoever wants to see it, of course)... Just one way of doing it, but I do think we ought to give some consideration to what information we want to highlight. Cheers, EE _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability