From kde-usability Sat Jan 03 16:47:22 2009 From: Stephen Kelly Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:47:22 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: How to join the KDE Usability Team? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=123100131827508 I'm going to try to push forward on this again. The issue of encouraging users to file bugs for what they consider 'usability issues' is contentious, so I'll leave that out of the page for now. Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > There is no motivation or purpose for a user to know what is in the HIG. > For them to go in to it and learn the rules so they can report bugs would > be the same as reading up on coding styleguide and reviewing source code > for incorrect uses of classes or lack of comments. At that point you are > no longer a user but have taken on a different role, either as a designer > or a coder. Right, and this page is about turning interested users into usability designers. Starting off by finding HIG violations, then - I dunno, creating use cases to clarify the purpose of existing applications and identifying where those apps drop the ball, pointing people at the right books to read to identify how to fix real usability issues, etc. I've put the page on techbase as it is now anyway. Click the red links, or change them if you can think of a better series of tutorials/things people need to know to contribute usefully to this team. http://techbase.kde.org/Paths/Usability Cheers, Steve. _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability