From kde-usability Fri Aug 17 05:22:35 2001 From: Jim Conner Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:22:35 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Progress X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=99803232715500 Welcome aboard. If you look in the archives of this list, I posted a 'To Do List' a couple of days ago. This project was on the To Do List. Please take a look at it and we welcome your contributions. Jim On Thursday August 16, 2001 1:26 pm, mattc wrote: > Hello List, > I'm new here and looking forward to contributing. I'll start quickly by > saying how impressed I am with the thoughtful and sophisticated attitude > you all are going about getting your usability issues addressed. It is the > right approach. Maintainers, developers, directors, and everyone else > involved are all here to make KDE a richer, and better experience for the > user. The developers are eager to get our input in the process. > > Now to my point. The developers don't want to hear from a couple of people > who arn't programmers who think they have some good ideas. We are all > technically experienced and hardcore KDE users already. We have little to > contribute from our own experience that they havn't already thought of. > Remember, they are hardcore KDE users as well. > > If we really want to be heard, we need input from people who are not > involved in using KDE, and lots of them. An effective use of our time > would be to come up with a study that we could put users through and then > record their experience. (Has anyone read the study Sun just completed for > Gnome?) Make it about an hour long, asking the user to perform common, > everyday tasks. When they have to ask the test administrator questions to > complete the task, you have found an unintuitive part of the GUI that needs > to be addressed. > > Finding people to participate in the study is the easy part. Go to the > computer center at your local university, and find subjects there, or > better yet, get the guy behind the counter who is making sure everyone > swipes their ID cards to help adminsiter the test. > > Or, take your laptop to the local coffee shop, and find subjects there. > There is a buzz around Linux that has reached the average person, many > would jump at the chance to see what it is all about, and these are exactly > the kinds of users we want to study. > > In my mind, usability issues are all about the GUI's first impression, and > ease of the transition from M$. > > I will coordinate this project. If there already is such a project > started, please let me know where I can contact those people and get > involved. > > > Take Care > Matt > -- 11:42pm up 24 days, 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Caldera eD2.4 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability