Season of Usability project

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2011, C. Boemann wrote:
> > > For the default values, I was thinking of just the add shapes docker,
> > > where it should be possible to add/remove default shapes and to edit the
> > > properties of the shapes that are in that docker.
> > 
> > ok if this is the limit then i don't see any problem with such a project 
> > description
> What about broadening it a bit to "how to insert shapes ?". That would cover 
> the defaults, how to make custom shapes and the distinction between tools and 
> the add shape docker.
> 
> I feel that just the "default" is a bit small for the project, and since we 
> have identified more problems related to that, we could solve all of them 
> together.

When I look at what the students produced last year, I was afraid that it would actually be too much... There are so much sides to doing a proper interaction design for the whole problem of inserting shapes. Just from the top of my head:

* organizing, tagging, adding and deleting default shapes in the shape selector
* dragging, drag+resizing, creating with a tool, creating from the menu
* defaults for all the ways of creating shapes

On the other hand, a study done in isolation for just setting defaults might not be that useful. Maybe it's possible for two students to collaborate? I'm willing to help mentoring them, of course -- and to make sure we don't get the usual usability study where one or two sample tasks are executed and described.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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