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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Usabilty Advice Website & User Interaction
From:       Irwin <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-26 23:03:14
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On May 26, 2002 13:59 pm, Marten Klencke wrote:

> 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.

Essentially an "advice forum" of sorts.

If you want to put this to a slogan, it would be, "KDE: Usable from the start" 
rather than: "KDE: fixing usability problems every day."

A good step to something like a "usability course".  A good example is to post 
up examples of ways NOT to design kcmshells and preference menus, or 
before-after pictures with explanations.  People are very visual and when you 
see the differences between two dialogs it's more likely to stick.

More formally would be to post a high-quality article describing the roots of 
HCI research and how it can be applied to a development project.  I'd call an 
article like this "Designing with usability in mind".

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that IEEE had something like "Transactions of 
Human-Computer Interaction" but I can't find it on their web site...

- -- 
- -- Irwin 
(Arcana)


As a jab to Microsoft, it's sort of like releasing a shoddy product (Windows 
98, ME) that is horrid but popular, and then when you release a product that 
finally does what it should have 5 years ago (XP), everyone praises you for 
it and hails the product as a revolution in computing.
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