I agree that an interesting demographic is the non-techies. I don't think women vs men is as clear a divider as techies vs non-techies. I am a woman and recently do UI, but I spent most of my career until recently doing embedded designs. I am following this project very closely. I can't wait to get one!
As an aside, did you see the recent study showing men actually talk just as much as women? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/05/ntalk105.xml Cindy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carla Another good demographic to consider is the non-technophile. I seriously considered handing the phone to a non-techie friend (man or woman) and see how long it would take them to make a call. It's a totally unfair test since currently the icons on the home screen are broken images. Once the gui is working how it should, this will be a great test for usability. Eventually it should be possible to hand it to a newbie without giving them a stylus :) With only one stealthy hardware button the cues on the screen have to be really good and something obvious needs to persist on the screen regardless of what's running. If a newbie launches the calculator instead of the dialer, it shouldn't be a "game over" scenario for the test. Brad On 7/5/07, london cowgirl <isntthatjesus at yahoo.com> wrote: > > It's important that OpenMoko is designed with both sexes in mind (especially > since women love to talk to so much). > > So a quick show of hands - how many women do we have following the OpenMoko > project? > > Carla _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
