Usability reports -- KDE guidelines certification, and other problems.

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 08:21, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> > > Should we have a location to post such reports?
> >
> > openusability.org
>
> I don't think so. The reports James is talking about are just
> *ui conformance reports*, not usability analysis or testing. So, in my
> opinion, they should go directly to the application list, or
> bugs.kde.org. No need to use fancy XML for those.

the reason for the "fancy XML" is to allow items to be addressed one by one 
and marked as such without having to add N bug reports, one per conformance 
issue. it's meant to be an optimized-for-usability-issues issue reporting and 
resolution mechanism.

and the reason i suggest openusability.org is that interface conformance is 
most certainly a usability issue. the new HIG is being written primarily by 
the people at openusability.org and will be maintained by them as well. 
openusability.org was set up to help maintain and create a usability work 
flow within KDE (and other projects too)

having people on the kde-quality generate/author the conformance reports would 
be great as it is something that can be done by anyone who is detail oriented 
as has the UI guidelines in one hand and the application in another. but 
keeping usability reports and results in one place as much as possible is a 
good thing IMO.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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