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Subject:    [Kde-usability] Re: Icon Usability
From:       Jono Bacon <f9808590 () wlv ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2001-03-22 19:44:35
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:25:46 -0500 Sean Pecor <sean@digitalspinner.com> 
wrote:

> On Thursday 22 March 2001 17:11, you wrote:
> > I think this is good in some ways and bad in others. It is good as it
> > makes the data easier for us to process, but it is bad in that
> > conditioning results to some extent by providning pre selected options.
> 
> True. Perhaps a multiple choice can be done during a second phase of the 
> poll, after the designer has had a chance to make improvements to the icon. 
> Then, you could take the top 10 user answers for the icon in the previous 
> poll, and display them as multiple choice during the second phase poll to 
> make sure the icon is now being understood accurately by the vast majority 
> (90%+). 

This could be useful, but unfortunatly still limits and conditions the 
user to a certain extent.

> This method would be more useful for the ACTION icons of course, 
where many 
> icons could use a little improvement, which is what I'm experimenting with 
> in some spare time:
> 
> http://extranet.digitalspinner.com/theme.png

Ahh excellent. :-)

> > I assume grabbing the values from the boxes then checking if there 
is a
> > DB entry should be ok. If there is no DB entry creating a new one.
> > What do you mean by a dynamic form including write in? Could you please
> > clafiry. :-)
> 
> You describe what I mean with your first sentence :). But you should moderate 
> all submissions before they are used in the form. Otherwise you'll get 
> "Monitor" and "Montinor" entries and so on :).

I think this is what it boils down to - moderation. I think it is going 
to be a case where we *need* to moderate the results for such things as 
spelling mistakes; something which I did'nt consider. If we are going 
to moderate results we might as well just create a post form and get 
results mailed to the mailing list or the CVS or something. These 
results can then be entered by a developer.

	Jono

Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] -- jono@kde.org
KDE/Qt Developer


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