[Kde-pim] Usability testing

[Martin Bednar]

Le mercredi, mars 11, 2015 01:29:43 PM Björn Balazs a écrit :
> Hi Martin,
> 
> sorry for being late on this :)
> 
> It would be best if you keep us (kde-pim at kde.org and kde-usability at kde.org)
> informed about your what you plan to do and the results you achieved. We can
> offer help, support and inspiration for your project, if you communicate
> early enough with us. Also we might be able to direct you into directions
> that are more valuable for the project.
> 
> Other than that, passing your course should be your main priority - anything
> good for KDE PIM is an extra.
> 
> Cheers,
> Björn
> 

H all,

Sorry for disappearing. I had to put this project a bit on the backburner, not 
giving it nearly the time I'd like.

My progress : 
First off, thanks a lot for the links, it helped a lot.
Based on the personas, I tried imagining usecases each would have, and then 
created a few testing scenarios.
Right now, I'm in the middle of doing cognitive walkthroughs of all these 
scenarios.
Unfortunately, some aren't testable on real users, due to bugs.
Those that are however, I don't think I'll manage to get users to test (and 
find time...)

My next steps are to compile the bugs I found and report them, and, based on 
the cognitive walkthrough of the initial wizard, I'd like to try and create a 
mockup of a better one.

I'm not big on notes in electronic form, so everythig is scattered on about 10 
papers which I'll be going through it and making some sort of report over the 
next two weeks.

Unfortunately, due to my spending most of my testing time in the account 
creation wizard (and related setup), I haven't been able to focus so much on 
the signing/encryption part. I hope to continue in my free time after the 
semester is over.

RFC : Details of the new wizard
In its current form, the wizard sets up akonadi resources, and that is it. 
It's up to the user to then set up his identity and encryption settings. I'd 
like to fix that.
Another missing part is basic server configuration (URL + port + protocol). 
I'd like to do something like thunderbird does.
Basically the wizard only asks for the name and the email, and then does its 
magic, leaving kmail in an unready state. I personnaly don't think that the  
wizard is worth fixing in its current form, that's why I'd like to propose a 
new one. 

One thing I'm not too sure about is how the wizard would work alongside 
KAccounts. Maybe base it on KAccounts?

Eagerly awaiting your comments.

Thanks all, 

Martin.

PS : during this I had the opportunity to really discover kmail, and boy, what 
a beast... A really awesome piece of software.
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