Subject for usability testing

[Sven Langkamp]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann at zagge.de>wrote:

> On Saturday, January 22, 2011 16:02:31 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.
> >
> > Of course other suggestions are welcome as well.
> > So what do you think?
>
> One think that comes to my mind would also be the tools and how to use
> them.
> Maybe not the text tool as it is quite work in progress at the moment but
> maybe the patter/gradient tool. I know we also think about reworking them
> but
> there a good usability review might help with that.
> Maybe it would also be good to test the basic interactions of manipulating
> shapes with the default tool, thinks like resizing, rotation e.g.
>

I agree tool/docker interaction should be tested. My impression is that many
users have problems with it as the tool concept isn't used in other office
suites.
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