Season of Usability project

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 Aug, C. Boemann wrote:
> 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?

Good plan... I'm not sure where to go from here. Should we write a project proposal, or first contact Celeste and see if there are students?

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Boudewijn Rempt
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