<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Thorsten Zachmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.zachmann@zagge.de">t.zachmann@zagge.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday, January 22, 2011 16:02:31 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> as those of you who have been on #calligra today probably already know, a<br>
> group of students offered to do a usability test as a university project<br>
> for us.<br>
><br>
> The usbility tests would be conducted in March and the students promised to<br>
> have some results ready for our developer sprint in April.<br>
><br>
> They have asked us to provide a subject for them to test. They would like<br>
> to know the subject by Wednesday so they can start planning.<br>
><br>
> My suggestion would be to choose the startup screen as a subject. We all<br>
> agree that it desperately needs improvement and JStaniek already offered<br>
> some very interesting ideas on that.<br>
> I think it would be very helpful to test those ideas before fully<br>
> implementing them to see if they work with users and possibly improve them<br>
> even further.<br>
><br>
> Of course other suggestions are welcome as well.<br>
> So what do you think?<br>
<br>
</div>One think that comes to my mind would also be the tools and how to use them.<br>
Maybe not the text tool as it is quite work in progress at the moment but<br>
maybe the patter/gradient tool. I know we also think about reworking them but<br>
there a good usability review might help with that.<br>
Maybe it would also be good to test the basic interactions of manipulating<br>
shapes with the default tool, thinks like resizing, rotation e.g.<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree tool/docker interaction should be tested. My impression is that many users have problems with it as the tool concept isn't used in other office suites. <br>
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