On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:55:03PM +0000, J. Antas wrote: > Returning to UI matters: > 1. Have you tried the usability test described, i.e., using those 5 > users "off-the-street", in no form related to the project and who did > not know how to do things? Were they comfortable? Hm. We afford the luxury of most coders being users. The UI design Richard Terry put forth for GnuMed has been in use by him daily for a few years. I myself like some of the interface he has and can easily use it. I tend to write those parts of GnuMed that I'll find immediately useful (in my practice) or that I have an immediate indirect need for (say, at my parents' practice). So, yes, the parts that work *are in use*. They are certainly not optimized for Joe Average user and can certainly benefit from improved design ... I am not writing software simply for random people to use. I am writing software to use myself or to fill a predefined need for a given scenario. I do tend to make the code modular such that it may be easier for other coders to serve other people's needs. If someone doesn't feel comfortable with Richard's design, so be it. Just write the plugins they want and have GnuMed load and display those instead of "ours".
> 2. About our medical colleagues, are you sure that the program model > meets their user model? Are you sure that GNUMed "affords" to be used by > the common "I use Word for Reports and to update the Curriculum and I > use Powerpoint for presentations" GP doctor? I am trying to get more people to use computers for more things than they did before. We can (and should) cater to other needs post-0.1. In a way, GnuMed (and more so Richard's UI) certainly is activity based. Want to work on the clinical record (the EHR) ? Bring up that tab from the tabbed main notebook. Want to manage (record) an injection ? Click on the syringe (a keyboard shortcut to come) inside the EHR GUI. Type the vaccine just given, type the site of injection, maybe change the lot number, maybe type a progress notes blurb. Click save. Given-vaccinations and missing-vaccinations lists update automatically. This nicely fits my way of working. It may not fit other peoples'. They are free to write plugins that fit their needs. > Now, I wonder, should I continue to send you some of those "boring" > papers? Sure. BTW, we've got pages and pages of descriptions by active doctors on how they want their UI to work. Some descriptions more and some less useful. Unfortunately they are all in German. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
