Subject for usability testing

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 22 January 2011 16:48, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> as those of you who have been on #calligra today probably already know, a
>> group of students offered to do a usability test as a university project for
>> us.
>>
>> The usbility tests would be conducted in March and the students promised to
>> have some results ready for our developer sprint in April.
>>
>> They have asked us to provide a subject for them to test. They would like to
>> know the subject by Wednesday so they can start planning.
>>
>> My suggestion would be to choose the startup screen as a subject. We all agree
>> that it desperately needs improvement and JStaniek already offered some very
>> interesting ideas on that.
>> I think it would be very helpful to test those ideas before fully implementing
>> them to see if they work with users and possibly improve them even further.
>>
>> Of course other suggestions are welcome as well.
>> So what do you think?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>
> I think there is another, possibly even more important question.
> There was discussion recently about modifications to how the dock
> panels work, and which of the methods available will be the default.
> Since this is a pretty central concept, effecting pretty much every
> aspect of the project, I think this is the key thing to work out.

That's good news, Thomas; +1 from me.

Both startup/file menu and dockers are related to the main window and
central workflow concepts so I
agree all that, at somewhat higher level, could be ideally discussed
as one item.

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