Results from Card Sorting targeting the Playlist Context Menu
Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
admin at leinir.dk
Fri May 8 23:59:23 CEST 2009
Very good idea, so here you go! :)
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Card_Sorting_targeting_Playlist_Context_Menu
Formatting is slightly dodgy in places, but i didn't have the time to fix it
all up ;)
On Friday 08 May 2009 16:08:00 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> You should put the results somewhere on the Amarok wiki. At the end of the
> year we can link to it in the list of KDE usability projects done for the
> year. :)
>
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 12:57:20 pm Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> > Heya!
> >
> > Before i start - i am aware that this is likely tl;dr material - as
> > such, for those with short attention span, the results of this are at the
> > end of the email. Disclaimer: If you did not read through the results and
> > reasonings, your responses regarding the results will be ignored at your
> > peril ;)
> >
> > As most of you already know, Lydia and i conducted a little bit of card
> > sorting regarding our horrendous playlist context menu. With the Last.fm
> > service plugin enabled, you have 11 (eleven!) entries in the menu, which
> > of course is entirely unacceptable.
> >
> > We sat down with a bunch of little sheets of paper on them, with each
> > entry in the menu we have now written on it, and a good lump of other
> > bits of paper and a pen for the participants to write any new ideas they
> > might come up with while sorting the existing items around and such. With
> > no further ado, here are the results of the test, after going through the
> > great amount of data we got out of it. Ten participants took part, most
> > Amarok developers (which of course skews the data fairly nastily), and
> > two non-developers (Wendy and Nuno).
> >
> > The Sorted Menus:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The following are the ten menus that people came up with:
> >
> > 1. Queue Track
> > Stop Playing After This Track
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Edit Track Details...
> >
> > 2. Stop Playing After This Track
> > Queue Track
> > Show Under Various Artists
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Service Actions (submenu)
> > Edit Track Details...
> >
> > 3. Remove From Playlist
> > Stop Playing After This Track
> > Play After Current Track
> >
> > 4. Show Context For This Track
> > Queue Track
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Edit Track Details... / Fetch Cover
> > (meaning fetching cover is done in dialogue)
> >
> > 5. Queue Track
> > Play After Current Track
> > Show in Collection Browser
> > Show Context
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Stop Playing After This
> >
> > 6. Queue Track
> > Stop Playing After This Track
> > Edit Track Details...
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Service Actions (submenu)
> >
> > 7. Remove From Playlist
> > Queue Track
> > Stop Playing After Track
> > Show in Collection Browser
> > Last.fm: Love
> >
> > 8. Remove From Playlist
> > Service Actions (submenu)
> > Show Context
> > Play After Current Track
> > Show in Collection Browser
> > Edit Track Details...
> >
> > 9. Remove From Playlist
> > Edit Track Details...
> > Show Context
> > Cover (submenu)
> > Show Under Various Artists
> >
> > 10.Show Context
> > Last.fm: Love
> > Remove From Playlist
> > Copy To Collection (submenu)
> > Edit Track Details...
> >
> > Pseudo-statistics:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The columns in the table below are:
> > 1. The number of people who put the item in their menu
> > 2. The number of the person to come up with the item (in the case of a
> > new item)
> > 3. The menu item title
> >
> > 6 - Queue Track
> > 5 - Stop After This Track
> > 10 - Remove From Playlist
> > 7 - Edit Track Details...
> > 2 - Show Under Various Artists
> > 3 2 Service Actions (submenu)
> > 3 3 Play After Current Track
> > 5 4 Show Context
> > 3 5 Show In Collection Browser
> > 2 - Last.fm: Love
> > 1 2 Cover (submenu)
> > 1 10 Copy to Collection
> >
> > A note on the second to last item. While number 2 came up with the item,
> > only number 9 used it in their menu.
> >
> > Comments:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The following are rationalisations taken from comments from the
> > participants during the test, and some conclusions that can be drawn from
> > the suggested menus themselves:
> >
> > * "Edit Track Details..." is often found at the end
> > * "Queue Track" is often at the top
> > * "Remove From Playlist" is often towards the top
> > * Many mentioned "Show Under Various Artists" as perceived as being
> > collection management or should be in the Edit Track Details dialogue
> > * Cover items often mentioned as either collection management, something
> > which should happen in the cover manager or in the Edit Track Information
> > dialogue * "Stop After This Track" is often towards the top, except for
> > one person who has it at the end. (Less obviously towards the top than
> > Remove From Playlist...")
> > * "Play After Current Track" superseded by the "Insert As Next" PUD
> > action * "Show Context" shows up half way through the test, and then most
> > like it and feature it at the middle or towards the top.
> > * "Show In Collection Browser" is argued as a way of reaching editing
> > things, but many others liked it and kept both it and "Edit Track
> > Details..." * The "Cover" submenu was created very early in the test, but
> > was discarded by nearly all participants.
> > * "Copy To Collection" shows up last, but has very valid use cases for
> > tracks not already in the collection (and arguably also for tracks in the
> > collection, though here it can be considered a pendant to "Show In
> > Collection Browser" for tracks that are not in the collection already -
> > in short, copy to the chosen collection and then show in the collection
> > browser where the track now resides)
> >
> > The Three New Menus:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > All of this leads to three new menus. The reason we have three is that
> > certain changes to the eventual final version either conflict with our
> > current string freeze, or depend on features that are not available in
> > Amarok 2.1 but will be in 2.2.
> > The menus below require certain things to happen in Amarok -
> > specifically the Edit Track Details dialogue will have the additional
> > feature of handling covers there. This does not add any new strings,
> > since the same strings can be used to do this as are used in the context
> > menu currently (Fetch Cover, Display Cover and so on). Furthermore, any
> > place the cover is present should be an element where you can interact
> > with the cover (click to display full size, right-click to manage). This
> > can be postponed, though new strings will also not be required for this
> > (same reasoning as before). The menus for 2.1.1 and 2.2 include an item
> > called "Service Actions *" - this item covers the concept of a
> > conditional submenu. What this means is, if you have more than two items
> > to show from services (Last.fm: Love, Last.fm: Ban, Libre.fm: Love,
> > Libre.fm: Ban, for example), the itemsare put into a submenu called
> > Service Actions. The same is applied here, if a service provides more
> > than two actions, those actions are put into a submenu carrying the
> > service's name. The reason this is not done already in 2.1.0 is that it
> > requires a new string.
> >
> > And now, the menus:
> >
> > 2.1.0 menu:
> > ..........................
> >
> > Queue Track
> > Stop After This Track
> > Remove From Playlist
> >
> > Last.fm: Love (and any other service actions)
> >
> > Edit Track Details...
> >
> > 2.1.1 menu:
> > ..........................
> >
> > Queue Track
> > Stop After This Track
> > Remove From Playlist
> >
> > Service Actions *
> >
> > Show In Collection Browser / Copy To Collection (submenu)
> > Tags & Information...
> >
> > 2.2 menu:
> > ..........................
> >
> > Stop After This Track
> > Remove From Playlist
> >
> > Service Actions *
> >
> > Show Context
> > Show In Collection Browser / Copy To Collection (submenu)
> > Tags & Information...
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