<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4691"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692">Hi Aaron,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4750" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692">I can imagine that is causes trouble in class. I wonder - can you tell us what the problems were (what they tried and what they expected) or direct me to the previous discussion of the topic?</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4851" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4837" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692"> Users (like students) rarely fail to point out issues one oversees as a designer or developer!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4857" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4852" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692">Kind Regards</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4856" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443593315051_4692"> Jan</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Aaron Batty <abatty@sfc.keio.ac.jp> schrieb am 23:50 Dienstag, 29.September 2015:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8585404606"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Jan:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Thanks for bringing these things up; we were discussing them last fall, because they cause my students no end of consternation. They have a terrible time importing datasets.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Aaron<br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv8585404606yqt2246332226" id="yiv8585404606yqt19573"><div class="yiv8585404606gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8585404606gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:33 AM, jan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:d_jan@ymail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:d_jan@ymail.com">d_jan@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8585404606gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear RKWard Devs,<br clear="none">
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Since I was recently working again more with RKWard (analysing usability<br clear="none">
data…), here are some usability problems I found. I tired to estimate<br clear="none">
how hard they are to fix, so one could focus on the most effective fixes.<br clear="none">
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I split them in different mails, so that the issues stay separated.<br clear="none">
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1) Reading CSV Data<br clear="none">
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First row as col names (easy/medium difficulty fix)<br clear="none">
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It took me a long time until I found how to get the first row as column<br clear="none">
name. Assumed reason: The checkbox for the option (nicely put on the<br clear="none">
first tab!) is somewhat squeezed between other elements. On Linux it<br clear="none">
looks like it is part of "quick options", on Mac this impression is even<br clear="none">
more extreme, since it resides in some darker-colored box.<br clear="none">
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Violated Heuristics: Usability, Standards (all other options have some<br clear="none">
sort of headline)<br clear="none">
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Proposed Fix: Give it a space on its own (an own line) and/or a headline<br clear="none">
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Aside there are several smaller issues I found.<br clear="none">
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Wordings (Easy fix)<br clear="none">
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a) In "Column names in first row" (1st tab) it is unclear if the first<br clear="none">
row is the CSV’s or the resulting data.frame. (Suggestion: "Use first<br clear="none">
line as column names" (?))<br clear="none">
b) "Default": On the second tab there are many "Defaults", but it is<br clear="none">
unclear what this default is.<br clear="none">
c) "Edit Object" (1st tab, save to options): This seems to open the<br clear="none">
object after import in the table view, but it suggests it somehow<br clear="none">
directly changes some object (like a mixin or an overwrite...)<br clear="none">
(Suggestion: "Open after Import" or "View after import")<br clear="none">
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Active/Inactive Fields (Medium)<br clear="none">
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Depended on other fields, some radiobutton options are active or<br clear="none">
inactive. Sometimes it is hard to follow why, and the many inactive<br clear="none">
options irritate<br clear="none">
Possible fix: Using Dropdowns (?) like in RStudio’s import<br clear="none">
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Preview (Difficult)<br clear="none">
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This is probably hard to implement but a preview of the first 5 or so<br clear="none">
imported lines would be great (also RStudio inspired)<br clear="none">
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Flow: Call the file selector (easy to medium)<br clear="none">
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Before any option makes any sense, I file needs to be loaded. So<br clear="none">
flow-wise it would make sense to open the file picker right away. It<br clear="none">
also would match user expectations, since it is standard in many other<br clear="none">
applications.<br clear="none">
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Kind Regards,<br clear="none">
Jan<br clear="none">
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