Season of Usability project

[C. Boemann]

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 11:00:10 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 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.
how about everything in focus but defaults as number 1 priority?