Usability Workshops
Jos Poortvliet
jospoortvliet at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 09:53:32 BST 2013
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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