Usability Test on usage of a file manager

[Matt Rogers]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:34:22PM +0200, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
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> Hi,
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> fyi: Starting tomorrow, we (Jan, Bjoern and me) will do some user
> interviews and usability testing on file managers. We want to learn how
> and for what purpose people use their file manager, which views they use
> for which tasks, if they switch views at all, etc.
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> We'll first test people on the file manager they are used to (mostly
> Windows Explorer, I presume) to identify their behaviour in a well-known
> environment. Later, we'll perform similar tests with Konqueror.
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> The goal is to form suggestions for:
> - - Default icon sizes
> - - Default views
> - - Arrangement of views on the toolbar, shortcuts
> - - Should the view adjust to the contents of the folder?
> - - Is the meta bar useful? How can it be improved?
> - - Are embedded previews appreciated?
> - - etc etc etc
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> Greetings,
> /el
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Wow! I look forward to seeing the results of this. 

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Matt