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<p style="margin: 0px;">Hi Thomas,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Thanks for your message and your offer for help in the UI Design field. I think Plasma Active and also Contour offers a huge field to try out new things in the UI and create a real touching experience:)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">I am sharing my thoughts about the UID of Contour regularly in this mailinglist as well and feedback is very welcome. Maybe we can arrange a timeslot next monday afternoon in IRC, where we can discuss a bit what parts of the UI could be of interest for you?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Usability testing is a very important aspect in this project, in my point of view, as the usage and interaction is different from known devices, so help is needed here in any case :)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">So, welcome and great to have you on board,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Fania</p>
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On June 1, 2011 at 9:05 PM Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar@autistici.org> wrote:<br />
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> Hi,<br />
> my name is Thomas Pfeiffer and I am working in the User Experience field both<br />
> in my job and within KDE (see http://de.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfeifferux ).<br />
> In KDE I have been working with the Amarok and Calligra team as well as on KDE<br />
> HIG and UI Patterns.<br />
> When sebas introduced Plasma Active at the KDE UX Sprint in April, I was quite<br />
> excited about it primarily for two reasons:<br />
> 1. The team seems to take the User Experience and User Interface design very<br />
> seriously, which is great<br />
> 2. Doing interaction design on modern devices like tablets and smartphones is<br />
> really interesting because it allows to do exctiting new stuff apart from the<br />
> usual desktop experience<br />
><br />
> So now I'd like to join the team as an interaction designer (not a visual<br />
> designer though, I'm not particularly trained on that) and User-Centered<br />
> Design expert.<br />
> I could e.g. do UI mockups or interaction flows, review designs and give<br />
> suggestions as well as help with User-Centered Design efforts like user<br />
> requirements or usability tests.<br />
><br />
> I must add that I'm usually not on IRC very often so it might help to arrange<br />
> certain time-slots when many team members are usually online and available for<br />
> discussion so that I can try to be online then.<br />
><br />
> I'd be glad if I could help you in your interesting effort!<br />
><br />
> Regards,<br />
> Thomas<br />
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