Usability Workshops

[Jos Poortvliet]

Heya folk!

One of our resident usability experts, Björn Balazs, will team up with yours 
truly to host a Usability Workshop on Monday at Akademy, provided we can find 
people interested in them.

The plan will be more or less as follows:
* We center the session around one or a small number of applications. This 
will be decided, as much as possible, in advance of the sessions.
* Björn will introduce the sessions with some theory about user tests and 
usability.
* we find a volunteer from the audience who isn't experienced with the 
application in question
* we let a developers from the application guide the user through the app, 
asking questions (avoiding suggestive ones). Björn guides the developer 
through this.
* afterward we discuss the results. Perhaps the developers can hack on their 
app now, in any case: everybody did learn something.

I have booked 10:30-12:30 and 14:00-16:00 on Monday room B3 for two sessions. 
With great demand we could add sessions (or have less if nobody cares).

>From you folks, especially the developers who participate in Akademy, I'd like 
to know if you're interested in having your application be the victim.

A few things to note:
* Ideally, at least 2 developers are present
* Ideally, it is possible to find people unfamiliar with the application (very 
hard for Dolphin and Gwenview, for example)
* This type of usability testing tends to show the Real Bad Stuff™, it's not 
terribly good at fine tuning an already quite good application.

So who's up for having his/her app checked out? Note that nobody replied on 
the akademy-attendee list so unless people sign up here, we'll cancel the 
workshop.

Cheers,
Björn and Jos
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