[Owncloud] usability testing

[Tom Needham]

> OWNCLOUD.ORG
> Page needs to be translated.

I shall investigate this. Maybe we can include the strings in the transfer project without it being in owncloud?

> A newly created text file was not directly editable.

Can I have steps to reproduce. I tried creating a text file with the 'new' button and also via WebDAV and both were editable without a refresh.

> Text files should be formatted better, the line numbers are too
> present and monospace font is bad.

I disagree, although it is a 'text editor', it should really be called code editor. A proper rich text editor should do the job properly, rather than creating a solution that doesn't fit either use case.

Awesome work though!

Cheers,
Tom

Tom Needham
tom at owncloud.com

On 10 May 2012, at 13:59, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:

> As some of you already know I currently work on bringing together
> usability students and free software projects. 2 student groups work
> on ownCloud, one does card sorting, one classic usability testing.
> 
> In the tests today there were quite some problems, especially with the
> calendar. Since we need to polish it for ownCloud 4, here are the
> first recommendations we extracted from the first usability tests
> (more will follow tomorrow, when the next tests are done).
> 
> 
> OWNCLOUD.ORG
> Page needs to be translated.
> 
> FILES
> Sharing via email does not give any feedback.
> Clicking a music file to play it did not work.
> Search did not work, at all.
> A newly created text file was not directly editable.
> Text files should be formatted better, the line numbers are too
> present and monospace font is bad.
> 
> MUSIC
> Disconnect between playlist and music collection. If you play one
> song, then the next button either does not do anything or play the
> song again. Should skip to the next song in the music collection.
> 
> CONTACTS
> Do not show nickname, organization and group by default! Only image,
> name, email, phone and address
> Remove the suggestions of the name field "contact new, new contact, bla bla"
> The telephone nr and email categorization is way too prominent
> 
> CALENDAR
> Month view is current default, week view should be.
> The popup is too complicated. Cut "categories", and "calendar" should
> just use the default calendar (color code that here as well!)
> If full day event is selected, do not show the time fields!
> Show the time info in one line: From [date] [time] to [date] [time]
> The calendar chooser shows "Array" 3 times, no calendar name
> Contrast of the type and calendar color is too low. All the calendar
> colors should be a lighter color (or when darker, the typeface should
> be white.)
> 
> BOOKMARKS
> Adding bookmark without content is possible.
> Remove the "Tags" input field altogether. Tags can be given after
> adding, but not as an upfront barrier.
> 
> 
> 
> We did not test the other apps (Pictures was not used, Tasks was
> disabled because it has a load of features and is very confusing) and
> this is only a set of first results. My time is very limited right now
> (and no wifi on my personal laptop) but I will try to also work on
> improving based on these results. Please let me know if you have any
> questions.
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