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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Progress
From:       Jim Conner <jconner83 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-08-17 5:22:35
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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
>
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