Subject for usability testing

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 22 January 2011, Thomas Pfeiffer 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.

I would love to see a proper interaction design for the startup of the calligra applications -- I've got this feeling that the real way to help the users reach their goal is behing hidden by the current solution or things that build on it. Like -- what is it a user wants to do when they start an application without a document?

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